Website owners often ask "Why can't I find myself on google?"
So here are some tips for testing your site's presence in the google database, and also some tips for improving it. Bear in mind, though, that google can take weeks or months to re-spider the bit of the net you live in, and rebuild it's link tables.
My website,
yvts.co.uk is used in each search - you would need to replace this with your own. My website doesn't need the www. prefix (the trick is called wildcard DNS, and is very common nowadays) - I advertise my website without the prefix. You might wish to test your own site both with and without the www. prefix.
Googling for: site:yvts.co.uk
Shows the pages google has from your website itself. If you're not well represented it might be that google can't understand how to get to sections of your website (are you using a flash-based menu? Is there an accessible alternative for colourblind, blind, or non-flash-equipped users? Google and other search engine spiders are effectively blind users using a text-to-speech reader. They usually ignore images and plugin content like flash.
Googling for: link:yvts.co.uk
Shows all pages google has found which link to your website. This should be, ideally, every site on the internet excepting ones with much lower google Pagerank than your own site. The more the better, usually.
Googling for: yvts.co.uk -site:yvts.co.uk
This shows pages which have your URL on, but aren't your website itself (it hides multiple pages on one site). This again is the more the merrier - if lots of people are talking about your website, listing links to it, or even using email addresses at your site, the URL of your site becomes more common on the net.
As for obtaining links to your website...
There's quite a lot of automatic directory services you can submit yourself to - it's one of the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) things you can do to get more links to your website.
Get friends with websites to link to you, and link to them - a mutually linked pair of sites is better than one linking one-way.
Ultimately, links to your website will count for a lot, so it's worth making sure that there's plenty out there. Google is slow to update and follow changes to the structure of the 'net (links to you) but can be quite quick to pick up changes to individual places on the 'net (blog pages changing daily)
The text of the links will go a long way towards giving google a list of keywords for your website. For an amusing example, try googling for "Miserable Failure"