My new site is online since 1st of January (btw it is brand new domain), I posted a thread at archive.org that day (I assume Gbot has followed the link from archive.org). 2 days later, Gbot has started to crawl index page. For 9 days it indexed only this page. Yesterday, Gbot has made deep crawl at all my site (appr. 260 pages). Hopefully in 2 days, it'll start to show up at Serps and next backlink update (appr. in 15 days) sites which has submitted to my directory would be able to see this site as their backlinks. Another feedback, if you have a website which has been regularly crawled by the Gbot, when you add new pages, it'll be crawled at the next Gbot visit. I hope this would help.
I have heard that submitting your site means that "google" has your information and wont index you until it is ready, ie you are next on the list, hence hampering your index time!
Fair comment catfish, I am a new comer, its just information I have read from other forums, I could see some possible logic behind it though. I have little personel experience
I started a thread, here about three weeks ago, and used our new sites, www.graduationcardsshop.com and www.cards-411.com but have not been crawled yet. That was a month ago. Still waiting. But Thanks