Money makes a difference If you can afford it, purchasing keywords with the leading serch engines can really increase your traffic. Targeted key words can attract a more qualified audience,but the cost will increase proportionately. It may take any where from two to eight weeks before your listing is added. Recording when your URL was was submitted to each search sevice can be cucial when following up to make sure your site was indexed. All in all, it may be weeks before you start to see any real change in your traffic pattern.
Perseverance is an absolute requirment.
Fortunately, most of the search engines will automatically update your listing every two or four weeks without requiring you to resubmit your listing. Somebody is going to steal your work Count on it. If your web site is curently ranked somewhere among the top twenty hits under your prized keywords, be prepared for traffic to fall off. Every day new sites are being added and indexed and those peaple who stole your text and tags are going to start climbing ahead of you. Maintaining your ranking position will take deligent effort.