About the homepage situation, when I google "site:www.domainname.com" and "site:domainname.com" I get two different results for one of my sites. One has my home page as a result one doesn't. Maybe you should try that.

No question is stupid and there are various sites to index and ping your URL of your site to like pingler.com and pingfarm.com and this helps to index your site fast. But it also depends on how good your content is. Articles with rich keywords are more likely to be indexed. For example google znz one and see I have one of the top 3 positions for this keyword because of my keyword density.

Jermaine " Lead Monster " Steele

There's a feature in google called Google Alerts which should email you when your indexed.. What I do though is just keep checking the keyword and going through the firt 10 pages.

The time varies, sometimes it takes a week, sometimes a few weeks, sometimes a few days.
Just gotta do your pinging, Social Bookmarking, RSS Submission if you can.

But start out by just pinging your site.
Try; Pingler.com
Pingomatic.com
Pingoat.com
Pingfarm.com
pingdevice.com

Cheers

Thanks for the great ping sites Zane, by the way does anyone know how soon will google update their page rank?

this not a stupid question.. i am dont know also...(Joking bro)
go google[dot]com and search site:www[dot]domainname[dot]com this is really simple..

We can't say when google spider/ crawler will come to our web page, for quick action w can go for post in pingler and pingfarm.
that means your home page not cache yet rather than those two pages

use cache, link, site commands to know better if your site is indexed in google or not..? as soon as these sites start showing some results it means you have indexed pages

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