How long will it take to rank my site?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Tapiwa Mapani: Hello all...new here. So I have a question you've probably heard a million times but probably also have seen a million different answers. So here it is:
  
  My site will be 1 month old in 7 days. I write strictly 1000+ word business advice articles. So far search traffic has been virtually zero with the exception of some I got from adwords credits. So in your experience, if I am doing and following correct SEO practices and the long tail formula, roughly how long will it take for such a site to start getting at least 50-100 organic visits a day?
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  Gordon Robinson: What's your site ?
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  Tapiwa Mapani: dailyhustlers.com
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  Greg Mee: +Tapiwa Mapani
  I did a site:dailyhustlers.com in google. Most of the pages that showed were tag and category pages. I dug through several pages before I found any of your content pages.
  
  Not sure what this means, but it kinda smells bad to me?
  
  At first glance it looks like you have the on page stuff. I see the titles, the markup, the social, the internal linking...
  
  Maybe it's just that you're in a really competitive niche? There are some pretty heavy duty sites in that area...
  
  Just for me... I think you could make the text darker, but I don't think G cares much about that. :)
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  Tapiwa Mapani: I did notice how the tag and category pages somehow are appearing way before the content. I don't really know why that's happening though.
  
  And the niche is a competitive one so I guess will have to wait and see how the rankings go with time.
  
  And thanks for the text color advice.. I was actually thinking along the same lines! :)
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  Greg Mee: +Tapiwa Mapani
  I took this title 7 Things to Ask Yourself When Deciding to Work For Free and entered it in G, where you are #6. #1 with "quotes."
  
  I don't see any authorship markup? 3 of the 5 above you have markup with pics.
  
  I'm starting to think a G+ presence is actually helpful (more than Facebook) and the authorship/publisher markup might help with that.
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  Tapiwa Mapani: Thanks for great help +Greg Mee!
  
  And I think a Google+ presence is definitely something that's contributing more and more to rankings.
  
  And my articles should have authorship markup but a previous bad theme I was using stripped that data out! So I'm hoping I correctly fixed the matter so that next time the old posts are crawled they'll reflect the authorship info and help me do better in search!
  
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  Greg Mee: +Tapiwa Mapani
  Do you have a dedicated G+ page for your site? That might help.
  
  Also, Google has its own SEO guide that's probably worth a look: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
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  Tapiwa Mapani: Yes I created a dedicated G+ page. Now I'm just working on getting word out about it.
  
  And thanks so much for the SEO guide. I'll read it as meticulously as I can since it is by Google meaning that if I can give them what they want surely I'll eventually land in good graces with search :)
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  Greg Mee: +Tapiwa Mapani
  Just remember that you're in a very competitive area. It's gonna take work. :)
  
  As to your G+ page... there's a lot of killer "how to G+" stuff floating about, all free. +Mervik Haums, for example, has some great stuff. Check it out. ;
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  Greg Mee: Oh, one more thing. Maybe, just maybe, especially in an area that tends to be a bit spammy, Google might take a while to rank posts from a new blog. I think age matters a bit.
  
  Not at all sure though, just something that popped into mind.
  
  Basically, if you like the niche, just keep plugging away. :)
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  Tapiwa Mapani: Thanks for the advice! And yeah the nich is super competitive but I'm hoping the long term strategy I'm employing will pay off one day! Just need to make sure I do things correctly in these early stages.
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  W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:12:20 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/how_long_will_it_take_to_rank_my_site