I am really new to SEO, and I haven't mastered the workings of it yet. I have had my site up for about 2 months, and I am on google, yahoo, and live. However, every time I check my search rank, it shows up that I am not even listed! (I'm using firefox rank checker plugin). The only way I can see my site on these search engines is the type in my domain name in the search box, then I'm on the first page. I have added keywords, descriptions, favicon, like I was told to do, and I'm linked from several different sites. What am I doing wrong? jeepcircle.com
It depends on your niche and it's competition. One of my sites took 4 months to show up for a very competitive keyword, while I just had another one of my sites hit page 3 after 2 weeks for a niche that's not at all competitive. Also make sure that you are using your keywords in the anchor text of your backlinks, that makes a huge difference.