As a webmaster, you know that it can be difficult getting your site indexed and optimized for Google searches. Doing some searching, I noticed that one of the biggest questions most people have is the length of time it takes for a new site to get indexed and start showing up in search results. I just launched a new article site and Google has still only indexed a few of my pages. From what I have researched, Google indexing of your new site can take up to 7+ months for a brand new site. This varies greatly depending on a number of factors, the main factor dealing with link popularity. If you can get some good quality links to your sites from sites with a high page rank, your chances of getting indexed quicker improve greatly.

Another tip is to submit a sitemap to Google by using the this URL: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login Use the links on the page to sign up for an account and add your sitemap. Creating sitemaps for large sites manually can become a headache. I use a free program that crawls my site and automatically creates a sitemap and uploads the sitemap file to my website. This saves a lot of work. Visit this link for the great tool: http://johannesmueller.com/gs/

As discussed above, linking is a great way to increase your chances of being indexed and gaining Google PageRank. A great way to increase your link popularity is by submitting your site to web directories or writing articles about your product or service and submitting them to article directories.

And here are a few good article directories:

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com

There are also many great tools at http://www.seochat.com that can help you increase your keyword popularity. Increasing your keyword popularity will improve your chances of your site showing up when a particular keyword is searched for on Google. You want to keep the popularity of specific keywords below 5% as Google may remove your site from the index if your keywords are too popular as this may lead them to believe you are keyword spamming.