How long does it take?

[teamgreene]

So, I just put my site online and I was wondering how long it takes for the various engines to crawl your site and add you to their listings?

Also, how do you guys go about getting people to link to your blog. I already comment and link to other sites, and my content is decent. What should I do here?

realopinionated.blogspot.com

[kensmith]

How long depends on what sites are linking to you. With a quality link or two you can get spidered in a day, but that doesn't mean you will rank. A new site takes time to get rankings, but once you are established you can add a new page and get ranking pretty quick for new terms.

[teamgreene]

Alright...so the key is to get linked to by bigger, better sites. Sounds like a piece of cake....:confused:

[BajaGeoff]

I would also revise the keywords on your homepage and corresponding interior content pages. Right now you have the same keywords on every page and that is not going to help with the search engines. They are also fairly vague so they not really helping you at all. If someone is looking to buy a home in your area, what would they enter as a search term or phrase in a search engine? That is what your keywords should focus on. You should target terms such as "Florida Real Estate" "Brandon Real Estate" "Brandon Florida Real Estate" and "Apollo Beach Real Estate."

[kensmith]

Good points, but don't bother with "state real estate" as you don't serve teh whole state. Just go after your local market, the more niche you can make it he easier it is to rank.

[MR22]

New sites will often take about 6 to 8 months to rank on google, msn and yahoo is a little different. But I agree with everyone else in the fact that you need more links in order get your site crawled faster.

[DEUCE]

My new site just got indexed in two days...

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

my fort worth site ranked number one in msn in two days.

[VegasRealEstate]

Many sites do very well quickly with MSN. The trick is getting your site ranked well with Google. Everytime we launch a new site, we are usually #1 or #2 on MSN for our main search terms, which our clients think is wonderful but I know it doesnt mean as much as being in the top 10 of Google.

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

yeah i know, but my fort worth site in msn has had over 400 hits this month already. So i cam quite happy

- MSN455
- Google128

[PaulEvans]

It all really depends on your strategy. We have taken our current clients website in 4 months to a page rank 3 and it is crawled and indexed on all 3 search engines.

[erogers]

I think quality inboud links are the key for early ranking. It took me exactly a year to get a serious look in Google for my main keywords although I was picking up the long tails a few months back. MSN ranks you instantly, I hear Yahoo is the same but I have no experience with that - never been ranked in Yahoo - wonder if they don't like me.

[spanishproperty]

First things first, I usually as soon as I have designed the website is sumbit it to all the search engines.

Then after you feel the site is ready to be spidered - set your links pages and starting linking. There are dozens of good places to find links (and hundreds of them).

All sites are different, I have had a site which is a specialist area become number one in google within 1 month. Ok that one was a one off as the competition wasnt great, but when you have a lot of competition you have to look at the whole picture, things take time.

MSN and yahoo are much better for ranking times should you doing everything properly.

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

I am still number 1 on Msn and now my 4 month old site is ranking on the first page of google

[chrishummel]

Hey Johnathon,

How are things going for you? I remember talking to you a bit in activerain last summer.

[happymondays]

Good points, but don't bother with "state real estate" as you don't serve teh whole state. Just go after your local market, the more niche you can make it he easier it is to rank.

Very good point. Highly targeted site is the word today.

[Monkeyleg]

The last ground-up site I built was in 2004. I just went back in my stats program to see how long it took Google to start crawling the site after I launched it.

It was a good two months. And then it was six to nine months before the site started ranking for my most targettted terms.

Dang, it's going to be a long summer with my new site. ;)

[lyka27]

Backlinks are very important to get be listed, especially relevant site that links to your website with good PR..
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[rainier]

it depends on how you optimize your site,.

[philippine_real_estate]

If you want to get indexed ASAP, try to Social Book Mark it, also you can submit your site on their webmaster page.

[rapidvectorseo]

Create BL's from forums, blogs and sb sites.

as well as submit your sitemap to indexed faster in search engines.

[San_Cristobal_Real_Estate]

Just a slight clarification, submitting your sitmap to Google through the webmaster tools does not make your site get indexed faster, it just makes it so that google can find all your pages once it gets around to indexing it. Submit your site to google, and build backlinks, that is the way to get indexed faster and get your site crawled more often

[Misa21]

Social Bookmarking can help your blog/site to get index fast by SE.. start linkbuiding, Get quality related backlinks for your site..