A popular question, how long will it take me to get to the top of search engines?  There is no straight arrow answer to this question, it depends on certain variables, but I can give you a general idea.

Ranking on the first page for a keyword can take as little as one week or as long as 6 months, maybe even longer.  I will discuss the lengths of time and why they differ.  First, an important part of the process is indexing.  Your website must be indexed in a search engine.  Indexing can take a couple of days to a week or longer.  Once your website is indexed it will be listed and crawled by search engines.

If your website is not indexed than a keyword can be the least competitive, but it may take longer to reach the top for it, thus it would be best to suggest your website to a search engine right away.  The next step is how established is your website, how much seo work have you done?  This can make the difference in timings; typically if you have done more seo work you can reach top rankings quicker.

Generally, a huge factor in determining length of time is how much competition is trying to reach the top for that keyword as well.  If there is little to no competition chances are you can pull of the first page of a search engine for that given keyword within a week.  Typically, a keyword that has little to no competition will be a longer phrase such as “where to find a seo company.”  A shorter phrase such as SEO Company, SEO Services, or SEO Professional will be much more competitive and take more time.

A tip when performing search engine optimization: try to mix in competitive and less competitive keywords together.  In the beginning you can increase traffic with a multitude of less competitive keywords, which of course will produce less traffic.  BUT with many of these keywords you can build substantial traffic.  While reaching the top for these keywords you can slowly focus o the more competitive keywords.

Thus, you can build up back links and traffic, then utilize that success to reach the top for the more competitive keywords and turn your website into a money making machine in no time!

Content creates an opportunity for a viewer to read about what your website is offering, it offers some sort of entertainment or reason to stay.  It is the text, video, game, or image that you provide to stimulate their mind.  When I talk about content I will typically be referring to text, because that is what search engines like to see.

In the eyes of a search engine content, as in text, is perfection.  It includes all the major information that tells the search engines what your website is about.  A search engine cannot view an image, interpret a video, or play a game.  The search engine will not know or be intelligent enough to determine many factors within a website.   A search engine understands words.  Thus, feed the search engines and people words and you will find success.

Now, don’t just go and start typing away yet.  It is important to incorporate keywords within the text that applies to what users will search for so that search engines will know to push you to the top.  For example, if you are selling a product, perhaps incorporate in bold, text that says buy product, or where can I buy product.  This is an excellent way to push yourself to the top of search engines, accompanied by other forms of internet marketing as well.

If your website is designed with all images, then it would be in your best interest to make the necessary changes or additions to create an opportunity to implement content.  When incorporating the content make sure the content is relevant to your website and written properly.   Search engines like to offer its searchers the highest quality results that are closest to what a person is searching for.  Thus, the higher the quality of the content and keywords embedded, the better chance you have of reaching the top for those keywords.

Another quick hint:  try to have constant changes on your website, such as additions of content, new products, new updates, etc.  Search engines will crawl your website and the rate they crawl your website is determined by how often you update your content.   In addition, the more active your website and the more crawling, the better chance you have of a search engine believing the website is quite active and popular, thus more traffic should be directed to it.