page ranking

[xpress]

How long after you submit your page into google, yahoo, msn will your page be ranked high or low, is there a time frame for this

[stapel]

To my knowledge, Google Page Rank does not depend upon the length of time your site has been up; it depends upon the in-links to your site, and the Page Ranks of the referring sites.

If, on the other hand, you are asking about the time-frame for listing ("inclusion") in the search engines, this also varies. But having an in-link from a valuable site usually serves to speed the process.

And if you are asking about how long it takes for your site to be listed high up in the search results, this can take weeks, months, or years, depending upon your design, content, and popularity amongst users.

Eliz.

[MichaelBluejay]

Your question is non-grammatical/non-sensical as written. You might as well be asking "Why is a hamster when it spins?", or "What's the difference between a duck?"

You appear to be asking two things:

(1) How long does it take to get listed in the search engines?

Answer: It usually takes no more than 2-3 weeks after another site links to yours.

(2) How long does it take to get ranked well?

Does your site *deserve* to rank well? Is it obviously better than the sites that are already on the front page for your preferred search terms? If your site doesn't deserve to rank well, then it will probably *never* rank well.

To get your site to rank well, you must build a *useful*, *informative* site, with *lots* of *good* content. Brett's post 12 months to success in Google [webmasterworld.com] is old but as timely as ever.

If your site deserves to rank well, it's fair to say that it could take a year before it does.

[TechnoGeek]

Hello, xpress.
When you submit a site to a search engine, you are asking them to spider your site. That means, they will send--when they consider it appropriate--an automated browser that will visit one or more pages, generally only the index at the beginning. At the next update of the index, your home page will be included. Usually it will be way down in the results. Consider that for not so common words there can be thousands of listings; a common word will have millions of them. As MichaelBluejay said, if your site is good it will gradually climb positions to the coveted first page of results. But be patient, it can take years.
Good luck.