One is a homepage link on a site with 8,000 unique visitors a day, pr5, another is a homepage link with 1,000 a day

I am asking about any non competitive long tail term just to prove I am in the mix.

last cache done is a week and a half old. So im gonna guess it was 2 weeks ago that I uploaded the site. I was thinking it was more like 1 week. :P

My main question is what is the delay for ranking now a days

Thanks!