Submitting your googlepages for google search

Hm... It looks like googlepages.com pages are not automatically indexed by Google. That's rather strange, because it's the same Google, after all, isn't it? BTW, blogger blogs are automatically indexed.

But anyway, You want your great home page page to be findable? Follow these steps:

1. Submit your site for indexing. It may be done in general way here, or, if you have google account (and you do), you can do it through webmaster tools. I personally like the latter way, because it is much more flexible in all aspects.
   
   Well, that's pretty much it, now wait, and after a while (may be weeks, actually) your site should become searchable. If you added something like http://example.googlepages.com, sooner or later google bot will index your home page and all the pages linked from it.
   
   Is there anything else you can do? Keep reading.
   
   
2. If you added your site, after it is indexed, you can view various statistics on it, plus manipulate in some may how google bots process it. However, in order to do it, you need to verify the ownership of the site. There are two ways to do it: including special meta tag into the header of home page, or uploading special file to the root folder of your site. The first way will not work, because in GPC you have no access to the header of home page, but the second way should work fine.
   
   Pay attention to the following things: first, google gives only the name of the file to be uploaded. Uploading empty file did not work for me, uploading valid html file did. Second, after verification is successful, keep that file on server. I've removed it right after passing the verification, and after a while had to verify the ownership again, with the html file of the same name.
   
   
3. One final thing. After You submitted http://your.page.googlepages.com for indexing, only home page and pages linked from it will be crawled. So, in order for some page of yours to be indexed, it should be linked from somewhere. So, don't forget to make a link to every page of yours somewhere! Or - use site maps. Sitemap is a special file listing the available content of some website. You may add sitemap to your website from Google webmaster tools.
   
   The good news is that googlepages automatically generate a sitemap for your site, which is situated at http://your.page.googlepages.com/sitemap.xml . The bad news, however, is that everything is included there, and you have no control over it. That also means that everybody, just by downloading your sitemap.xml, can get access to all the contents you've put there. Keep this in mind - googlepages.com is not for sensitive information. So, assuming that everything you put on your googlepages is for public, just add the default sitemap to webmaster tools, and You'll be fine.
   
   If you want some customization, however, there's no rule prohibiting you from creating and uploading your own sitemap under different name, and adding it instead of sitemap.xml.