dertyfern - 4:10 pm on Apr 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

I've had a number of new sites go live in the past year and without fail, the sites with very high quality one-way inbound links seem to rank fairly well within days and not really lose ranking beside the normal fluctuations.

As mentioned above, in most instances, initial rankings do tend change for the worse, then creep back up over time.