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I have spent 100s of hours building my site up (first timer here) to get it to rank well. I started this back towards the end of June (roughly 4 and a half months ago) and launched an 800 page site. I was very aggressive at acquiring links, receiving about 50 a week or so. (using altavista, it shows I currently have around 950 showing up).
I feel that my site offers some great unique content, but am really struggling with getting higher in the SERPs. My main focused keyword isn't super competitive, it gets maybe 30,000 hits a month. I have not had much luck with Google (I will, but am "sandboxed"), but the real kicker is that with Yahoo i'm doing terrible, I am currently 270th for my top term.
But here's the surprise, when using MSN's yet to be revealed SERPs test database, I am coming up 4th!
Any thoughts to what the lag is? Inktomi spiders my site every day, usually with about 50 hits, and has for the past few months.
I am trying my best to be patient, I guess I thought that with so many good links (I offer unique content that people actually want to link to) things would move faster.
I think what would help the most would hear how long it took you to do well.
Thank you for reading my rant!
Matt
