How long does it take to be listed on google? I have uploaded a sitemap. The site still hasnt been listed on google.

Did you add in a meta tag? Go to http://www.astahost.com/quick-html-t13797.html to learn how to if you don't know. I wrote the tutorial myself. I think the default is 10 days for Google. It also depends on your host. I am not exactly sure what astahost has for Meta. Also, here at astahost you should keep your posts around at least 3 lines long.

Yes, i do have meta tags. Is there any other suggestions that you have so i could get the page listed quickly?

Having other people click through the links on your site and also people link to your site from other web pages will also help.

Purchase some in-bound quality links. (Yahoo, business.com etc.)

Spend lots of time submitting to free directories too. (Thousands)

There's no such thing as a magic bullet. Even if you hire a good SEO firm it will still take some time.

As for google if you are trying to rank for a competitive keyword you will have trouble if your domain is new. But a google site map makes all the difference in the world.

And additionally you should also try to create a sitemap for your site and then submit it to Google Sitemaps - http://www.google.com/sitemaps - It does a real good job of picking up the information of your site.

It may take some time to initially get listed by Google through Sitemaps, but once you do that, you will be amazed by the speed with which it keeps tab of your site. Whenever I add something to my site, I have a system setup that automatically submits the new sitemap to Google. When I check the logs, I see that Google Bot visits my site within a day and sometimes even after 2 or 3 mintues, and has all its cache updated with the latest content on my website.

The system I am talking about is available in Drupal CMS but I belive similar analogus components should be available for right about any other content management systems. On the other hand if you are building your site by hand, then I think, you will need to put a little bit of more effort to get the sitemap up and then submitting it to Google.

The sitemap is not just good enought to be submitted for Google - I have seen that it does a good job at other aggregators - like FeedBoy aswell, so that you need not rework on the sitemaps again and again for different sites. Ofcourse, I do submit seperate sitemaps to aggregators because my site is a mix and mash of quite a few different topics.

If u dont submit it to google u must wait when google bot visit u .And that happen if u have many visitors in ur site.

Keywords and meta tags are very important. If you do a google search, you can see it'll highlight the words you typed in. So content of your site is important. If your site is all flash, you won't be getting listed very well. Try using words that are search for a lot, but use descriptive ones too. If that makes sence?

It didn't take me all that long to get into google, I basically submit a google sitemap and re-submit from time to time when it changes and tryed a few free submissions and what not.

Having a link to your site in your forum signatures and such should help too no?

week tops. Make sure you've submit your site to google though. www.google.com/adsense Adsense helps to get you up too becausethey crawl your site to ensure relevant posts.

You dont even need meta tages to be found on google, if you search the url you should find it.