My site got spidered but.

[Fiky]

Im starting to worry now, a lot! My new site finally got spidered by googlebot because I checked the logs and google bot went through every link etc. Now I do a search in google but my site is not up anywhere yet, even using the site: command... Someone ease my panic by telling me that it takes time... :(

[physics]

It takes time.

[Fiky]

Phew! :)

Alot of people say it takes ages for their site to be crawled mine only took 2 weeks assuming it dont take 4months to appear in the actual search results

[UserFriendly]

A while back (maybe eight weeks ago), Google was only listing about thirty of the pages on my site, and my site has been there since 1998. Or 1997. I forget.

Anyway, Google is currently listing 229 pages from my site. I think that may be every page on my site.

Google moves in mysterious ways. All you can do is follow the webmaster guidelines and wait to see what happens.

[Ecntrc]

you just have to wait it out. it does take time. it wont happen over night, in a week or maybe even a month. for my client she was asking how longb before she would show up and i said it takes time. youll get there sooner or later

[Fiky]

Ok Guys my site got listed on google, I can only find it by typinging my-niche.com and it comes up. It only took 2 weeks so I am not complaining.

I'm assuming now I build links using my keyword im targeting to my site showing for that keyword, correct?

P.S Can someone explain to me what google sitemaps is used for? Do you create a sitemap and uploaded to google everytime you make big changes?

Thanks!

[UserFriendly]

Yes, Google Sitemaps is just an XML file (a structured text file) that lists all of the pages you want Google to know about on your site, along with the estimated update frequency, the last date the page was changed, and the priority of each page.

Google claims it helps the Googlebot to find your updated pages more quickly.