I signed up with a company called Host Save a month ago to publish a
web site, and would like to know how  long will it take before i can
enter my URL
www.sirloinspedals.com into google and be recognized. It always says
there is no info for my URL but if it is valid you can then click on
it.   When can i just enter any key words like pedals , etc

Hello,

Search engines use a process called crawling to gather websites. This
means that they send a crawler (or "spider") over the Internet
following links. When you set up your hosting account and your
website, you do not get automatically added to Google. If you want
Google to add your site to its index, then you need to ensure that
there is a page already in Google's index that links to you.

That way, next time Googlebot (their crawler) crawls the web, it'll
follow the link to your site. Another way to get in, is to add your
website using the form at:

://www.google.com/addurl.html

Google also suggest (at ://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html#B2 )
that you submit your website to Yahoo! or the Open Directory. For
information on submitting to Yahoo, see the following URL:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

For the Open Directory (Dmoz) visit http://dmoz.org and navigate to
the category your website best fits into. Once you've found it, press
the Add URL link at the top of the page and follow the instructions.

Usually, Google takes around 2 months to add your website to its
index. Remember - if Google are just starting a crawl of the web then
it may be a while before your site is found!

Remember - not everyone uses Google. Use submission tools such as
JimTools ( http://www.jimtools.com ) to get into lots of search
engines.

I hope this helps and good luck!

Technonotice

>>> When can i just enter any key words like pedals , etc

I think the best bet for you is to use the google adwords feature at
adwords.google.com. I think they charge you $15 per 1000 views for
your web site. I think google has a 6 month lag time. This is what I
noticed when I brought my site up. YMMV.

Cheers
Suresh

Hello,

There is no fixed criteria for the time period in which any website is
listed in Google. The best general way to have your site listed at
Google is to enter the details of your website at the following URL :
://www.google.com/addurl

Doing this will allow the Google Search Bots to analyse your site and
if they find it suitable or worth, it is listed automatically.
However, this procedure does not guarantee the listing of your site.

Another way to have your site listed on Google is by paying them for
listing your site but I dont think that paying such an amount ( I
don't know the actual amount, but its a bit expensive ). This will,
however, gurantee the listing of your site.

Yet another way to get your site submitted is to submit your site in
an appropriate catagory at this URL:
http://www.dmoz.org

It is a free open directory listing and all URL's listed here are
automaticall replected at Google within a few weeks (two to three).

One more thing which I would like to tell you in this respect is that
your website is not technicall upto the mark to be listed on any
search engine for the simple reason that it has no META TAGS for the
purpose. A good website is one which contains a lot of appropriate
meta tags which help search robots to identify them and have them
listed on the various search engines. So if you have some good and
appropraite meta tags added to your website then I can gurantee the
listing of your site on all possible good search engines. This is also
the answer to your query about entering keywords. The keywords entered
in the META KEYWORD tag are responsible to invoke search engines to
reflect your site when any one enters the keywords mentioned in your
tags.

If you have any more queries then feel free to consult me.

Warm Regards,

VIT (Vivek Toshniwal)