Q: How long will it take for my site to rank in the search engines?
A: The short answer to this question is it depends. Each search engine has a different time frame for adding sites to its index. To get your site listed, there is no longer a submission process to go through. Major search engines now find and index sites through links. According to Google,
The best way to ensure that Google finds your site is to have pages on other relevant sites to link to yours. Google’s robots jump from page to page on the web via hyperlinks, so the more sites that link to your pages, the more likely it is that we’ll find them quickly.
Once a search engine finds a link to your site, it will index it immediately. The time to add the site to its online database varies from engine to engine, but it could take less than a week to get listed.
How long it takes for your site to get listed and how long it takes for your site to get rankings are two different questions. Your site could be listed but it might never get rankings. This is why you must optimize the site for carefully selected keywords. However, the key to ranking well is getting links. The more links a site has the greater chance it has of ranking well.
How many links a site can have depends on how well it is marketed. A site must also have quality content to receive links. A well-marketed site with great content could receive a lot of links and start ranking well within a few months. Sites that are not marketed at all or have poor content will not receive many links and will not rank well no matter how much optimization is performed on the site.
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Q: How many keywords can a site have?
A: When people ask this question, they are asking how many keywords can they target to get their site ranked under successfully in the search engine results.
The answer is simple. Each page should have one topic. This means that each page should have one keyword phrase with a few variations included.
Your keywords should be found in the title and meta tags and also on the page for optimal rankings. How many words you can have per page generally depends on how many phrases you can fit in the title tag, which should be no more than two different phrases. Anything more than this may look like keyword stuffing.
So, to sum up, you can have as many keywords as your content allows. If you want more keywords, add more content to your site.
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