Learn About Google:

First you need to understand Google's point of view that their responsibility is to their users, not to website owners. It is a requirement on the webmaster to produce a website which is relevant. Google likes quality content websites. Google doesn't like sites loaded with banners, popups, or external links to bad neighborhoods (prescription drug, illegal content sites, gambling sites or spammers such as "fastclick").

To see if all your pages are indexed by Google
type this into the search bar:
allinurl: http://www.yourDomain.com

To verify your position in Google
you may wish to refer to: GoogleRankings.com
http://www.googlerankings.com
Enter your site name, and your search terms, and choose how many sites to check.

Resources from Google:

Anything from frequently asked questions, to robot.txt guidelines. I've listed some of the "need to know" pages below for handy reference.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html  - FAQ, Google Information for Webmasters

http://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html  - Getting Listed

http://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html  - Ranking Questions

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html  - Design and Content Guidelines

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html#quality  - Quality Guidelines

http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html  - Search Engine Optimizers

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general  - Google User Support Discussion Forum

http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html  - Ten Things Google Has Found To Be True

http://www.google.com/corporate/today.html  - Google Today (absolutely the best information you can read about the "how and why" of Google's results

http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html  - My Web Pages Are Not Currently Listed (a good 'primer' on how and why Google works so well)

http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html  - Google Facts & Fiction (can you buy your way to a high ranking in Google?)

http://www.google.com/remove.html  - Remove Content from Google's Index (just in case you need to avoid the double content filter)

It is incumbent upon you, the webmaster or the website owner, to ensure your site meets these basics if you want your site listed. Webmasters who do follow the guidelines usually have no problem getting listed and showing up under the search terms they desire.

Webmaster World forums about Google:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10003/2010.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/

--- Wednesday, December 29 2004, 20:00

Google sets the standards other search engines follow.

1. Download a piece of Web authoring software - 20 minutes. 2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page - 6 weeks. 3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded it - 20 minutes. 4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on your site - 1 minute. 5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like - 4 days. 6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, download it again - 25 minutes. 7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do - 15 minutes. 8. View the source of others\' pages, steal some, change a few words here and there - 4 hours. 9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software - 1 minute. 10. Try to horizontally line up two related images - 6 hours. 11. Remove one of the images - 10 seconds. 12. Set the text\'s font color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is gone - 4 hours. 13. Download a counter from your ISP - 4 minutes. 14. Try to figure out why your counter reads \"You are visitor number -16.3 E10\" - 3 hours. 15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text - 8 hours. 16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP - 40 minutes. 17. Accidentally delete your complete web page - 1 second. 18. Recreate your web page - 2 days. 19. Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your ISP\'s server - 3 weeks. 20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP - 30 minutes. 21. Download FTP software - 10 minutes. 22. Call your friend again - 15 minutes. 23. Upload your web page to your ISP\'s server - 10 minutes. 24. Connect to your site on the web - 1 minute. 25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps - eternity.