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At first, takes a while for Google to come by. Lurking the forums here, I know the answer is "patience". So I keep typing in my spare time. Eventually Googlebot comes by, but refuses to go deeper than my home page. Hooray! But I notice that I am nowhere in the results for verb (I search all ~800 results for my site). Patience.
OK, time goes by and I get a link inbound from a page with some PR. Lo and behold, Googlebot finally decides to take a look at the pages inside my site. Wait a few days, take a look, I still can't find my site anywhere in the search results for verb. Patience.
OK, I keep typing in my spare time on my little hobby site, Googlebot comes back regular now to look at my home page (no deeper crawls since the first one), and now I am seeing a few incoming hits from Google SERPs. I scurry over to Google to check them out and, lo and behold, there are a couple of multi-word search terms for which my site is in the top 10!
So then, of course, I figure I must finally be ranked for verb. Nope. Nowhere in the 885 results. Just for grins, I try the "repeat the search with omitted results included. Nope. I'm not in the 996 results either.
OK, it's still not much of a site yet, and I still have Patience. But I'm curious about the fact that I now appear high up for a couple of multi-word search terms (all of which include the word verb), and not at all for the 1-word term verb. Is it a known fact that a different, tougher algorithm kicks in for 1-word search terms? Should I be worried that I might have inadvertently committed a Google-sin in my content?
I've done some poking around other sites that do appear in the results pages. I can see why I certainly should not be in the top 10, but really can't see why I shouldn't be in the top 800 -- by the time you go down a few hundred, there are plenty of sites that really can't be construed as being as relevant to verb as my little guy is.
Confused, but Patient.
It's not the best time to check for ranking since an update is happening: Florida.
SERPS are expected to change wildly in the next couple of days.
