That depends on how well you have optimized your content and how long it takes for the targeted search engines to review and include the submitted page(s). Each search engine and directory has its own site submission and review policy. The turnaround time and site review procedure largely depend on the size and popularity of each engine. Some smaller search engines will add submitted pages to their indices immediately following submission or in a matter of days. Other, larger search engines may require a number of weeks due to meticulous reviewing procedures and high volumes of new Web page submissions.

Generally speaking, search engine optimization is a continual project. This means that in order to achieve success through the Internet's search engines you will need to optimize your content carefully, ensure that your content is indexed by the top search engines, and that those search engines rank your page(s) highly for critical keywords and phrases. And because competition for high rankings with the top search engines can be fierce, you will need to be patient A top 10 Google ranking cannot be secured in a matter of days. It will take several months to reach Google's, Yahoo!'s, and MSN's upper echelon for anything but the most obscure keywords and phrases.

It is important to understand that Google and Yahoo! both rely on so-called sandboxing concepts when reviewing newly indexed pages. Web pages that reside in the sandbox are deliberately kept out of the top rankings for as much as several months. The search engines do this as a countermeasure against search engine spamming. Sandboxing pages allow search engines to take the necessary time to carefully review new pages to assess their quality and importance. As well, sandboxing allows the search engines to prevent pages that rely on blatant link spamming from tainting the search results. Once a page leaves the sandbox it will compete on equal terms with the billions of other pages in the search engines' indices. Sandboxing can be frustrating and irritating for Webmasters, but because the major search engines are forced to combat increasingly innovative search engine spamming, the sandboxes appear to be a necessary evil.

Note that due to the search engines' different policies and practices Traffic Blazer cannot guarantee that a submitted page will be listed, or that a listed URL will achieve a high ranking. You can check to see if your page has been added to a search engine's index by using Traffic Blazer's List Checking feature, or by visiting the engine's home page and entering url followed by your full domain name (example urlwww.domainnamegoeshere.com ) in the search entry box. If your URL is listed, it will be returned as a search result. The Traffic Blazer Rank Checking feature allows you to check your Web page's search engine ranking for up to three keywords at a time.