If only! A submission to a search engine be it free or paid for merely gets the site listed in the search engine index. That is, somewhere among the other thousands, indeed 10s and 100s of thousands of websites competing in the same or similar fields of business. To achieve visibility and generate first time visitors requires continuous effort to understand and work with each individual search engine and its relevancy algorithm.

Unless you pay some search engines to guarantee inclusion within days the time it takes before being included in their index alone can range from 2 weeks to 6 months and more. Add the time it takes to continuously optimise the site before it gets to be visible and it becomes understandable why reliable results cannot realistically be expected before 6 to 12 months.

If that were true sytemaker.com would not enjoy the success it has at present. Although no website in our care has ever gone backwards with search engines and directories they do succeed at various rates, depending on how much the subject of the site is represented on the world wide web. To achieve this success requires deep understanding of the search engines and their rules and regulations as well as sound judgement of their relevancy algorithms, practically all of which are kept secret. Equally an understanding of visitor behaviour, likes and dislikes is needed to determine keywords and phrases used to find a site.