Hi guys! I have been reading the newsletter for quite some time now. Ive decided to actually come to the site for a look see. I like what I see. Im over here because I am having issues with google.

I am ignorant when it comes to search engines. I am still learning. I have one of the top 5 sites for fishing in MN. I am the new guy on the block, and my competition is killing me with there ranking on google. Key word "Minnesota Fishing" in google has me on page 15. I have lots of traffic coming to the site mostly from adwords and word of mouth.
I noticed some time ago that my forums were not getting indexed. So I had someone "google tap" my phbb nuke board 3 weeks ago. Nothing changed, and I assumed that the problem was that the forums were blocked to non members, so I unblocked them about 1 1/2 weeks ago. 2 days ago I saw ip's from inktomi bouncing all around my forums. I am assuming that the forums were being crawled.
Is this right? And when should I notice a change on google. The 2nd search result in google for lakestatefishing shows my forum module with access still denied. How often does google update?

Please help me understand google and to catch up to my competition.