Can you share your experience on ranking your website for a high volume keywords. I want to know how long it took you and what is the search volume. For example, I have ranked in the 3rd page for a keyword that have 60500 searches a month and it took me 1 year to get there. What about you? tell us about your experience ...
I usually take a slower approach on SEO and give a website about an years time before I could start seeing first page rankings for huge volume keywords. I try and go for a combination of long tail + short (high volume) keywords. While websites drive traffic from long tail keywords in the beginning, after 8-12 months, I start getting heaps of traffic from major keywords. In my 8 years of experience in this field I have seen major algorithm changes. Maintaining rankings on first page gets difficult because of high competition but if I am getting enough traffic then I am a happy kid
In average we need 1-2 years to get on 1st page with a very high competitive keyword... If working on a medium, up to 6 months is enough... for long tail keywords it should be a piece of cake just by adding some good content!