How long does it take to appear in results (after sitemap)?

Just wondering because I have a website that isn't huge but isn't that tiny (8596 Unique Visits to the main site, and forums with Threads: 1,791, Posts: 10,024, Members: 148). Not massive I know, but they've been up for ages now and yet if I Google search "site:[myurl]" it returns a grand total of 4 different pages.

Now I don't know that much about SEO but I understand that Google doesn't really like dynamic pages, and this may be a problem since the main site uses PHP-Fusion and the forums are vBulletin. I've installed a hack for vB which converts the URLs to .html and I've submitted sitemaps for both the main site and forums (both were generated by plug-ins) yet I still seem very unpopular with Google.

So do any of the knowlegable folk here at DigitalPoint have any suggestions? Should I change from PHP-Fusion to something else? Should I change my sitemaps? Should I cry myself to sleep?

Thanks

 

It took just around 20 hours for my site to come up...check out it always varies..

 

But my site has been up for months upon months and the latest sitemaps I submitted have been there since Sept 17 with no errors.

 

Your site is not indexed yet, or its not showing up in search?

 

Your problem is very few backlinks. You need other good quality/high-PR sites to link to yours for Google to decide that you're worth indexing more than just a few pages.

Go to www.text-link-ads.com and buy a link on a couple of PR5+ sites, and Google will index you better.