SubmitEdge had a good piece online late last month about the possible reasons that your new site still isn't showing up in Google...

The number one possible reason is pretty simple: maybe no one has linked to you. While you can submit your site to Google, the people over there index you mostly based on other people's links to your site. Ethical, voluntary links. You can buy links, but Google ignores those links once they figure that out...

Time is also a factor. You may just be in a bigger hurry than Google is. After all, they have a lot of sites to crawl. You should also consider the reliability of your host. If your site's server is down much, Google may have done their crawl and found your site inaccessible.

Finally, some web designs make it hard for Google to crawl your site. Google has some guidelines for site designers that you should consider.


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