Search engine lag

There are only three search engines to seriously consider when submitting your website to search engines. The BIG THREE include Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

We've known for some time that when we submit a site to the BIG THREE, one will respond more quickly than the others and that one will respond significantly slower than the others.

For example, one of our clients submitted her site to the BIG THREE in November, 2004. Very soon, her site was showing up on MSN and doing quite well. It wasn't very much later that she had a similar experience with Yahoo. However, she was nowhere in Google. We first noticed her in Google after about three months -- her site fluctuated between 200 and 300 for her primary keyword. By April she started moving up in Google -- from 200 to 120, then up to 70-90, then by May she was on the first page.

One SEO consultant reported the following timetables for results by search engines.

* 2 - 3 months: MSN rankings secured
* 6 - 8 months: Yahoo! rankings secured
* 8 - 12 months: Google rankings secured

Learn to be patient when dealing with search engine optimization.