I just made a new page and submitted my sitemap to google and bing a few days ago. I tried to see my ranking but nothing yet. How long can i expect to wait? Also how fast is a realistic time to rank on the first page if its a massage bussiness for a small city and the competitors,around 50, dont utilize seo?
No one can assure you exact time frame for rankings. Google rank website on multiple ranking factors.
i completely agree with you @acro ocean there is less competition and but as you mentioned these are very new pages. so you need to SEO activities for the website. then you can expect ranking in Google.
Ok, i see. So just keep on working on seo and let it takes its time? Noting i can do to speed it up to see my progress?
Google will still measure PageRank based on their factors, but the toolbar rank the people see will probably not be updated anymore. That being said the game hasn't changed one bit - you still have to follow proper SEO guidelines, building and promoting your side and patience is the key. No one here or anywhere can tell you how fast you can go to number 1 because this entirely depends on you and your actions. One thing is for sure - as you are aiming to a specific niche in a local market and don't have much competition it should be a much faster process compared to ranking globally in the same niche...
There is not any specific time allocated for rankings, depends on your work rate and the competition for the top position. You try to be as much natural as possible and better than your competitor in a way that looks natural and you can get to the top position. But be sure you do not rush for a top position and make some SEO efforts in hurried way, that may be unnatural to Google or other search engine and you might get penalized. If you are looking for a tool to check where you rank for some specific keyword, http://smallseotools.com/keyword-position/ could be your answer.
It really depends on google crawler and there is no ETA for that. However, you should try checking after 2-3 weeks on alexa.
There is no specific time frame to which you will know your ranking. You just have to work on your strategies. You can check the activity of your site through Google Analytics.
Its will depending on your backlinks and on page optimization factors. Once get high quality back-links and perfect optimization easily get result from 2 months
You can always check your ranking in google webmaster tools.. Or at least that was an option that last time I looked.
What's the common thing between your post and the post of the person who started this thread? Ok, Nevermind.. acro ocean, did you manage to cope with the problem of indexation?
LOL! Just submit sitemap and you expect a "boom" on your ranking? BIG NO my friend, do your work hard (build content & backlink regularly) and your site's ranking will go up.
Google crawling website with in 15 days and sometime it takes more days depends upon your website structure and sitemap.
First of all check your website is it indexed till or not. If its not indexed fetch as Google in Webmaster tools. Also you can submit your site on reddit or high quality Bookmarking website. They make your web page cache easily and faster. Hope this helps Cheers