How Long For Top Rankings?

[WebTrust]

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On average how long do people find it takes?

[Cdr268]

2.3 days.

My turn:

How long is a piece of string?

[Cdr268]

Ok then, you're right.

On average, how long is a piece of string?

[scriptmonkey]

It depends entirely on your ranking strategy and your target market, hence the piece of string comment.

A piece of string is approx 23.6 inches (by my calculations)

Or

A piece of string is a flat array containing 4 elements

[0] = 'A'
[1] = 'piece'
[2] = 'of'
[3] = 'string'

which doesn't give you the length, but does give you a model to work out the length

[Hero]

what's going on in the forum lately, why is there a surge of people looking for the magic formula in SEO?

[scriptmonkey]

why is there a surge of people looking for the magic formula in SEO?

I blame the popularity of Dan Browns books

[confuscius]

If the piece of string is long enough then it can be subdivided and in turn be used to generate a load of balls. A load of balls is what any average answer to the original question would constitute, therefore proving beyond any doubt whatsoever that it takes a piece of string to get top rankings, regardless of the timescales involved. QED.

[scriptmonkey]

So a tiny piece of string will subdivide into a load of nano-balls?

Mmmmm, nano-balls

[Seamaster]

Sometimes you go straight in at number one and stay there.

Sometimes you go straight in at number one and drop down for a few months and then come back.

Sometimes you never come back and someetimes you never go staight in or end up on the first page.

[benfriedman]

A piece of string is twice as long as half of its own length.

[apg1985]

When the website is launched about 1 week for it to be indexed, if you got a xml sitemap hooked up to Google and manual submission of url.

Once its indexed look for your website for its chosen keyword.

From that your just have to work at it and see what happens.

The reason why people are being funny is because every keyword you aim for is different, trying to rank for 'plumbers in a little town somewhere' is going to be alot easier to get to the first page then 'insurance' so your best bet to get any kind of feedback is to post the actual keyword your aiming for.

[kamikaze]

When the website is launched about 1 week for it to be indexed, if you got a xml sitemap hooked up to Google and manual submission of url.

Once its indexed look for your website for its chosen keyword.

From that your just have to work at it and see what happens.

The reason why people are being funny is because every keyword you aim for is different, trying to rank for 'plumbers in a little town somewhere' is going to be alot easier to get to the first page then 'insurance' so your best bet to get any kind of feedback is to post the actual keyword your aiming for.

Why would you wait a week to get your site indexed when it can be achieved in a few hours ?

[forexaffreviews]

This should be renamed to The SEO string theory thread. Enjoyed the responses here though!!

[aotagain]

"SEO string theory".
Well worth a few articles and links to email 'secrets' newsletters, if you're selling SEO, along with any other tech words you can combine with "SEO" that look vaguely credible ;-)

If people will seriously examine poo, after watching bad science, then getting subscriptions to SEO newsletters is a piece of p..s

[thelongroadtomoscow]

Although a somewhat naive question one can quantify relatively (vs competition) based upon a number of factors, off the top of my head, domain name, domain age, backlink quantity/anchor and quality, on-page SEO (not as important as the snake oil merchants would like you to believe), content, (g)analytics usage, standards compliance....

I once did a 1hr talk on the Google internal network infrastructure and although much of it is unknown to outsiders, the paper on bigtable was enlightening that I used to prepare.

I guarantee try to discuss the internals of specific google internal bigtables with SEO "experts" (99% who are b*llsh*tt*rs) and you'll get a blank face.

The SEO "experts" con (for most of the ranking factors are self-evident) is a farce. At one major London agency I realized they were complete airheads within minutes. Somewhat disturbing.

Toodle pip.