Weekend project TimeToRank.com-How fast can you rank for given keyword?

I'm interested to know how you are determining these ranks. I just tried a bunch of keywords that I focus on for certain sites, and have focused on for a couple of years. I know these are difficult keywords yet all but a handful turn up 0 days, 0 sites are indexed.

SEOMoz has a keyword difficulty tool (http://www.seomoz.org/keyword-difficulty/). I've never looked in to the methodology they use but it seems fairly accurate in its difficulty measure.

You make it sound like throwing up a page about a specific keyword will help you rank after x days.

That is simply not the case, if I'm building 100 links per month & you're building 0 then my "time to rank" is going to be significantly shorter.

You need to be looking at the total number of links to the top domains, the percentage of links they have that contain the anchor text & other factors may include the inception date of the document/domain (linkresearchtools gives you this).

What on earth could it be using to make this estimation? Pete?

Edit: "61.5 years is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'google'."

Awesome, my grandkids are going to be so rich!

0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'xkcd'.

Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword:

0 sites are already indexed.

-1 is the average Page Rank for the top results.

Every word I try gets 0 days?