There are many things that can happen during the period of adjustment before you see some real organic ranking results, they include:
  1. Increase in traffic
  2. Increase in External Links
  3. Increase in the amount of clicks from searchers
  4. Increase in age of domain
  5. Increase in age of backlinks
  6. Increase in PageRank
  7. Increase in Internal Links
  8. Increased Search Engine Trust