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kcmo from KC MO -

Once you've submitted your site to a search engine, how long should it take before it actually begins showing up in searches? Does it depend on your meta tags or more on your links and advertising?

Comment #1 jennifer from Detroit -

It can take anywhere from a few days to a few months and sometimes you will not get in (at least not on the first attempt). Metatags aren't even used by some search engines and they really don't have anything to do with the time taken to get into the listing. Google have a handy sitemap option where you can actually monitor the progress of your submission.

Comment #2 webferret from Irvine -

Metagas alone won't get you up in the ranking but I can affirm they help. But you have to post fresh original content, not just garbage. So many people will do ANYTHING to avoid this. Then they coplain they don't get good results.

I write content and with meta tags I got results very quickly.

But this isn't a gimme you have to load the content up on your site.

Comment #3 kcmo from KC MO -

Does site content alone get you to the search engines, or do you really have to make the effort to get text links onto other sites?

Comment #4 Billy from Beverly Hills -

I have a new site that came online yesterday (domain was registered a couple days ago). Googlebot has been going to town on it today (and even started indexing before checking robots.txt). That is not the norm. You normally need some good links to get the bots to start coming.

Comment #5 webferret from Irvine -

What keyword action in the metatags did you use?

Comment #6 delino from California -

That's incredible. You're extremely lucky. I have seen so many cases where it takes ages to get a site listed. I really don't think metatags are what caused this. It's probably solid content and a good title.

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