tedster - 2:36 pm on Mar 28, 2009 (gmt 0)

There can be early good rankings, within a few weeks, and then they go away. Then they slowly reappear and grow into a more permanent situation.

The variables involved in seeing a new site rank are many - for instance, is it a blog, an ecommerce site, an information site, etc. How well does it do in attracting natural backlinks and building a buzz? What keywords you hope to rank for would be the big variable.

Yes, there certainly is a time-delay involved, in almost every case. But it's not nearly the 6 months to 1 year that we used to see.