Google Sitemaps

[The Little Guy]

I have added a list of pages that I want google to index, and I provided it to google. About how long should it take until they start to show up in searches?

if I do this search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fd-top.org&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
Only 8 pages of results are returned, and that is with the omitted results.


So about how long does it take till all the pages I gave to google take?
I also have a robots.txt that looks like so:
User-agent: *
Disallow:

I do think that google can index htaccess files am I right?
something like so:
RewriteRule ^artist/(.*)$ /display.php?artist=$1

[jasondmce]

Getting all your pages indexed is possible but sometimes it takes time. In addition to your Google Site Map, make sure you have a good navigation system within your site connecting all your pages. Don't have any pages more than 2-3 clicks deep from your home page. Also, get some inbound links to the pages within your site. Not just your homepage and make sure each page you want indexed has a good ammount of original content.

[The Little Guy]

Here is my navigation system:

index.php
|
+--artist
| |
| +--song title
| |
| +--song lyrics
search results
|
|
+--artist
|
+--album
|
+--song
|
+--song lyrics
|
|
search by letter
|
+--letter
|
+--artist
|
+--song title
|
+--song lyrics

or http://d-top.org/
What do you think? I tried to make it as easy as possible.