How long before you can see a new site?

up til now I have only paid for traffic. Now I am trying some seo with a new site. How long does it take the se's to find and index a page if you are doing the normal seo stuff... directories and article submission etc?

 

A couple days at most

 

so... how can I check that I am indexed?

 

Type your URL into the search engine. If it appears, you're indexed.

 

If you do it in the middle of an update it sometimes gets indexed in a few hours.
If it takes more than a couple days then i would start to worry.

 

What do you mean worry? Is it possible not to get indexed????

 

oh, and how do you see where you are listed in the millions of results?

 

Yes, it can happen, but I wouldn't get too worried. Just be patient for awhile

 

with site command.

Example site:www.site.com

or on yahoo by this : http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

 

I don't understand?

 

Don't worry about it, it's just a more complicated rewording of what I said earlier. Just type your URL into the search box of a search engine, and if it shows up in the results, you're indexed

 

ok... so how do I know what # I am for a search phrase?

 

http://tools.legco.net/serps/index.php

 

Awesome tool... thanks... of course I'm not even indexed yet!

 

or you can use for checking your rankings this :
http://www.seologs.com/dc-rank-check.html

 

Just to clarify, this only checks Google's datacenters, while Shoe's script checks the four big search engines.

 

From a few days to a few weeks