Hey.. Just now I added my site to Googles search engine.. I was wondering is adding it pretty instant? Or does it take a few hours for it to be "officially submitted and show up". I also verified my site through the meta tag.. Should I remove the meta tag or just keep it in the site? Also.. when I log into my webmasters account and click the button "sites" (top right cornerish) I only see other url of mine.. Will it take some time for it to show up? Since I just added it... Thanks for all the help given. Much appreciated!
if you have used google add url page, it may take weeks. it's easy to find some backlinks. if you do this, G will find you
If you chose to verify your site via meta tag, than the meta tag should remain there (it is stated also at Google Webmaster tools). You could anyway want to verify the site via page upload which is better if you don't want to add and keep the meta tag there. The indexing is not instant, it would take a while. Tho you could always reduce the time of indexing and help Google to faster find your pages and index them, 1). create a XML sitemap for your site and submit it from Google webmaster tools 2). Get a backlink from a website which is often crawled by Googlebot and the Googlebot will find your site by following the link from there. This could speed up the time to get you indexed in Google.
You just got some of the best advice out there and I would do all of it if I were you. Give it some time, though. Google can be a little slow at times.
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