I am fairly new to this also. What I have learned is Google will crawl your website but it may not be listing for over a month. My sites have taken about a month before any of the pages show up on the searches. Another thing....if you are targeting keywords that are very popular and competitive then your chances of getting a high ranking are much lower. Target keywords that are less popular but still get the right traffic to your site. This is just my suggestion. If I am wrong please someone correct me. ;-)