OMG! Is it possible?

I'm gonna be in Google

[babyclassroom]

I just launched my site 3 weeks ago. I have quite a few good inbound links to my site. I did a search just now on Google for "mysite.com" and found my site! It is listed as: www.mysite.com/ - 23k - Nov. 7, 2002 - Cached

Does this mean that Google visited me today? Does this mean that I should be properly indexed in the next update?

If so, I'm going to jump for joy. Please don't burst my bubble :)

[jdMorgan]

Houston, we have ignition, and the clock is started...

Hang on! :)

Jim

[Slade]

Shouldn't the content that was indexed be on the page too? (or did you snip that part?)

When you click the Cached link, do you get a copy of your page?

For kicks, also try link:www.yourdomain.com and see if you get anything. If you do (not sure if you will for this new a page), I'd say you're really probably going to be there next update...

[Powdork]

Don't jump for joy just yet. Did Googlebot (ip address 216.239.46...) crawl your pages around the third through the fifth of this month? If not you will probably bounce in and out of the index until the next ubdate when you will probably be dropped for a while due to a drop in fresh crawls around update time. During the update which follows the next crawl you should make it in on a more permanent and more aptly descriptive fashion. If, on the other hand, you were crawled deeply in the beginning of the month you will bounce back and forth until the next update when you should be listed better.
The fresh dates are a bonus so you should jump for joy anyway.
Good Luck and by the way, Welcome to Webmaster World.:)

[Chris_R]

If it shows no similar pages - it is part of the intra update.

There are a ton of these in google right now. I see a greater percentage of these today then I have ever seen before (probably at least 3 - 4 times as many).

These types of pages seem to come and go - so don't be suprised if it disappears - it should come back.

[babyclassroom]

My site doesn't show when I do link:www.yourdomain.com

Also, I don't see the Googlebot in my logs, but then again, I'm very new to all of this - so I might not know exactly what I'm looking for.

I have a question - will my position in the search results be different once I'm actually fully indexed? I sure hope so, because right now it's pathetic!

Thanks for all the help. These forums are GREAT!

[Powdork]

Also, I don't see the Googlebot in my logs, but then again, I'm very new to all of this - so I might not know exactly what I'm looking for.

If you have access to your raw logs you can open the files in a text editor like notepad, or wordpad (provides much cleaner view for mine). Then use the find feature entering Googlebot in the search term. If you want the deep crawler enter "216.239.46." noquotes. Then see where she has been by checking the get requests and responses.
If you have a stat program you can check the browsers, user agents or ip's or more names depending on the program. If you have inserted js for tracking this will not know Googlebot comes by because she won't access the script.

I have a question - will my position in the search results be different once I'm actually fully indexed? I sure hope so, because right now it's pathetic!

Right now your site is indexed just as content instead of content and pagerank. If your site has incoming external links from other sites that are ranked highly by Google then your positions should improve. If you have very few low quality links your position may drop as many here believe sites may get an imaginary or inflated guess of pr for pages or sites showing up for the first time. Work on getting quality backlinks pointing to related quality content and in time all will be well. It does take time as there is usually a lag between when you ask for a link, get a yes, then get the link actually on their site, then get it indexed by Google in the deep crawl, and then the wait for the update.

[Nick_W]

Yeah, looks like Freshbot picked you up, you'll be outa there in a few days but most likely in for good in the next update.

A new site of mine is showing from a very specific keyphrase. Happens all the time...

Nick

[NFFC]

>many here believe sites may get an imaginary or inflated guess of pr for pages or sites showing up for the first time

I'm sure they do, what it is based on I'm not sure. I could be based on the PR of the page that they found you from. Rankings won't always drop with full inclusion, the one thing that they don't seem to factor in to the fresh sites is the link text, this can help massively with rankings afer a full update.