Hey. I just uploaded a new site, submitted a sitemap to Google at about 2.45. Within half an hour Google crawled the entire site, all 76 pages! I set up a Webmaster Tools account, added the domain, verified the account. Created a sitemap, uploaded the sitemap, verified the sitemap. Then checked the site: command - 0 pages indexed. 10 minutes later I noticed 7 pages indexed, so I go back to WMT, click on indexed pages - and it was now 11. Shortly afterwards it was 22, then by 3.15, all 76 pages were indexed. So I first found Google had crawled my site TEN minutes after submitting a sitemap. Into the equation, that means Google crawled 76 links in 20 minutes, equating to almost one page per 15 seconds. Of all 76 pages, 43 were cached, the rest were indexed but not cached, including the homepage. This domain has zero backlinks and was only registered on February 5th. 0 links in google, yahoo or msn - so was this mere coincidence Google found it, or did the Sitemap submission really work at a tremendous rate? Now that I've got around 70 brand new articles, never seen to the public eye, all based on a relatively highly paid keyword, it'll be interesting to see how many sites will steal my new articles. In case you're wondering, it's not the site in my signature. Oh, and in the time it took me to write this, I've just noticed my site is now ranking 3rd in google for the domain name, from a possible 43,700,000 results. Note, this is a search for "my domain name" for a url of www. my-domain-name .com. Certainly just a spike in the SERPs, as I fully expect it to go down until I start building quality links to the site. Until then, over and out