newbie speaking: Hello to everybody on this forum,this is my first post. Can you tell me how long it takes to begin ranking in major search engines, is that fast after they put you in their index or it takes a while. I made my first site submited it to SE-a made a few relevant links, of course Msnbot visited me first and put me in index after 2 days but I'm not ranking for any of my keywords, is that because I'm simply not good enough to be in the 1000 results or it takes a while after indexing to begin ranking
*Try* not to focus on search traffic that much right now. If you just launched, try and create some really good content so that asking for/getting links from other sites will be easier to do. Create some good articles that you can submit to article sites. Stay away from checking your SERP positions as much as you can and try to build links and content as a389951l said. Doing that will make the search traffic come sooner rather than later.
As an experiment, I built a crappy site called cholesterol-facts.org/ and I linked from my forum curious-contraptions.com and it was literally picked up in DAYS! site started on the 26th or 27th of dec and I rank #1 for my targeted key phrase ("cholesterol facts") on msn. this just goes to show how messed up msn is