It took me around 12 days to get listed on google. I think mostly because I didn't really know what I was doing back then

There's also a site age factor in google's formula.

They have found that most of the spam sites don't have old domain names. So if your domain name is new, it is difficult to rank well for competing keywords (ones that are popular). This process takes about 9 months to a year.

Getting your site in the index is generally not a lengthy wait. In my experience, about a week to 10 days. I use google sitemaps to submit. But having the entire site in the index, and having it rank well is a multi-step process.

Another good tip is to use my msn my yahoo and my google, and put your site on your own homepage using whatever anchor text you want.

Gin

I didn't bother submitting my site to Google straight off because my first site took weeks to get on the database and even then it was on the tenth page. I submitted my site to teh Open Directory Project. It took 2 weeks for it to be added to their database. After that my website appeared in all the major search engines including Google and yahoo. Now if I type in the title of my page it comes up top out of 29,000 pages and it's on the third page if I type in only one keyword which gives 1,600,000 hits. So I think it was definitely worth putting my site in the ODP because now its not only listed but given a high ranking by google.

When i submitted my site a while ago it took a few weeks. I even tried to use sitemaps to speed it up but i noticed little difference. It did eventually get in there though.
The thing is, if you want to get good results out of using google you better make sure your site is optimized and that google is registering the right keywords.

-HellFire

Like most companies very frustrating trying to understand how long in takes to get your site spidered, we have spent a lot of money originating approx 500 pages of in depth content and meta tagging unique pages.

Approx two months later still only caching home page. www.riky.co.uk. The only way we have found to accelerate the caching is using pay per click as Googles appears to index these. From a commercial prospective I do not understand why google do not offer a service where it allows companies to pay to have the site cached for a one of fee.

Then if in a time frame the user satisfaction is good it increases your rankings, if poor demotes, even though we are having teething problems we are still enjoying average page views of 10 and 7 minutes visit duration, which everybody tells me is good for a landlord related website. Besides directories and links strategy what else are we missing.

Any tips would be appreciated

If your website is a blog especially from blogger it gets listed quicker than a website, make sure you Ping your blog. Once your website is indexed it will have a low rank as it is a new website. Take some time and try to get links to your website. Try and get good quality links and relevant websites which are similar and that are high ranked. Don't overdo the keywords and meta tags aren't really that important anymore.

The first thing though is to choose keywords and then use these as your links e.g Rare Phones (click on this link goes to www.yourwebsite.com)

Use all of google's tools that they give you.

Try and put your keywords as the page title and higlight keywords using H1 tags.

Good Luck