These are pretty solid answers. Definitely focus on traffic and don’t worry about PR. But since you asked…. I would add that it depends to some degree on the industry you’re in as well as the sweat equity you put into it.

When Danny Sullivan left Search Engine Watch and started his new company/site, Search Engine Land, searcheingineland.com debuted with a PR=7 and that happened within about 3-4 months of launch. How? Because he and his team put a lot of hard work into the site, creating great content. And because there’s a lot of willingness to link in the search industry. Note, though, that it’s still at PR=7 some six months later.

(For comparison, my blog debuted with PR=1, quickly bumped to PR=2, and then jumped to PR=5 after about 10 months. And it’s still 5.)

If you’re in an industry where linking from resource to resource isn’t done so freely and openly, you’ll struggle to come close to the examples above.

Hope this helps.

i would worry more about traffic to your site than page rank…..

Traffic is where the business comes in, you can have a page rank 0 and still be very profitable..

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for a free traffic report to help you out…

From there simply email any questions you’d like.

A first page position/ranking on Google’s PageRank’s algorithm can be achieved within 10 weeks. It all depends on the following:

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.

And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.34
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It’s on the FIRST PAGE [PR 10]!
Again, Nazos.net’s high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google’s publication guidelines. And as an after thought, my own website has been ranked PR1 & 2 for over 7 years on Google.com.

Good luck!

take a look at this site, they claim a pr 10 in just 1 year

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