I am having pretty decent success getting my homepage to list on Google. However I am not having nearly as much luck with all the secondary pages. Some are hitting, some are not - even though I am using fairly easy long tail keywords for the pages. The question is, do these take longer to list, or is it perhaps something I'm doing wrong with the site map? Any thoughts are appreciated.
Have you built any links specifically to these internal pages? It should take far fewer links to make them work, but they still need link love.
now you need to build strong backlinks for your home page and internal links also try to focus on navigation on your home page it should be search engine friendly
If your secondary keywords are not getting hits and not listed in Google it means it requires backlinks so get backlinks for those particular keywords.