How long after submit for Google to list site?

[Jeremy]

I am getting ready to take the password protection off my site, and submit
it to Google and the other search engines. Google says on its website it
makes no commitments as to how long or if a site will be crawled and added
to their index. That's fine, but does anyone know how long it usually takes
for Google to pick up a new site once its submitted to them?

Thanks for sharing your experience. Jeremy.

 

[Wes]

Up to a month.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

I've seen it take several months.
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| I am getting ready to take the password protection off my site, and submit
| it to Google and the other search engines. Google says on its website it
| makes no commitments as to how long or if a site will be crawled and added
| to their index. That's fine, but does anyone know how long it usually
takes
| for Google to pick up a new site once its submitted to them?
|
| Thanks for sharing your experience. Jeremy.
|
|

 

[Jon Spivey]

It depends how you submit. The best way to get a site on google quickly is
to put a link to it from a page on another site with a decent PR, this
should start google crawling the site in a week or so and get the site
indexed shortly afterwards. Often this way you go straight in with a PR of 2
or 3. Of course this is assuming the site itself is sensible.

The worst way is to submit the site yourself. Best that can happen is a few
weeks later you may see yourself indexed if you search for your site name
but to get actual content indexed will take a long time and to actually get
a worthwhile ranking will take even longer, we're talking many months. In
the worst case google may not even index you atall - if that happens you
can't complain or appeal you just have to accept the loss of potentially
your biggest source of free traffic.

Once you've got 1 site on google with a good PR it's easy to get other sites
indexed quickly.

 

[Steve Easton]

In addition to what the others said, register it yourself with DMOZ.

www.dmoz.com Once they pick it up, all search engines will pick it up. It can take dmoz a couple
of months to list your site though.


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[David Baxter]

see below:

The worst way is to submit the site yourself. Best that can happen is a few
weeks later you may see yourself indexed if you search for your site name
but to get actual content indexed will take a long time and to actually get
a worthwhile ranking will take even longer, we're talking many months. In
the worst case google may not even index you atall - if that happens you
can't complain or appeal you just have to accept the loss of potentially
your biggest source of free traffic.

No. Submitting your site to Google will not hurt you. It may not help a
whole lot either, but it will not hurt you. It is however true that
getting spidered by Googlebot is only the beginning and that without
links from already indexed sites (including directories) you may be
buried so deep in the search results that you may as well not be indexed
at all.

 

[David Baxter]

see below:

In addition to what the others said, register it yourself with DMOZ.

www.dmoz.com Once they pick it up, all search engines will pick it up. It can take dmoz a couple
of months to list your site though.

It can also take a couple of years. Or a couple of lifetimes.

Don't hold your breath about a DMOZ submission. By all means submit it.
Then forget about it. It's only one link, when all is said and done.

Submit to other directories with relevant categories and do what you can
to encourage other sites to link to you.

 

[Jon Spivey]

I didn't mean it would hurt to submit yourself - my point was it's the worst
(ie longest time) way to get a site listed