We are going to do an experiment. We have created a simple website at www.franklin-nc-homes-for-rent.com and optimized the page for the search term, franklin nc homes for rent. We have registered the site with Google Webmaster Tools. The only link to it that we are creating is the one on this page. You will note the link is not optimized with a good text term.
Now we will monitor what Google does with this information. We know that the search term we are going after is not very popular and has little specific and mostly generic search engine results.

We will post here when Google first visits the site and starts indexing the pages, and then watch to see what movement the site gets in the SERPs. Will Google give us credit for an optimized web page with only one inbound link? Let’s see.

Today, 09/18/2008, we submitted a sitemap to Google so that they will crawl the site. There are only 3 pages. Let’s see what Google does with this additional information.

Today, 09/24/2008, we went into our Google Webmaster Tools and saw that Google indexed the site on Sept. 16–two days before we submitted the sitemap! I suspect that Google saw, through their G Toolbar on my browser, that I was accessing the site, and decided to take a look at it themselves.