New pages are spidered but don't rank after 3 weeks

[Broadway]

I've recently added a topic consisting of 8 pages to my website. I checked to see if Google had spidered these pages yet so I performed a search "site:mysite.com keywords" and found that yes Google found these pages about three weeks ago.

I would have expected these pages to have been listed in the SERPs at least in the top 30 rankings or so (the keyword associated with this topic isn't all that competitive). Instead I don't even find them in the top 100.

Is there a lag associated with newly spidered pages and I shouldn't expect to find them quite yet, or should I be thinking that I have some penalty associated with these pages such as over-optimization?

(I don't notice any problems or changes associated with the SERP rankings of the rest of the pages of my site. Pages first spidered months and years ago.)

[dibbern2]

In my experience, you should give G 6-8 weeks before expecting ranking, and even then, it won't be unusual if you rank pretty far down... 100 or lower. After that, its a slow crawl upwards, and in my case, good, strong ranking in about a year.

That's all based on looking at things based on a keyword or short phrase, which I think is misleading. I get a lot of traffic on new pages --all of it long tail searches-- long before it ranks well for a specific keyword.

[travelin cat]

I believe that newer sites might have to wait 6-8 weeks, but sites that have developed "trust" with Google rank much quicker.

On one of my sites, changes appear in the serps in less then 24 hours. In other sites it can take several days.