The web is HUGE. In fact it's beyond that. It takes time for a site and
pages to get indexed. Depending on where the crawlers are and your site is
that could be weeks or months. That's the most important thing to
understand.

After that what's important is "title" and site relevance. The title on each
page is very important, if you look at my site www.barvin.com you'll see
each page title starts with "Barvin", if you search on barvin you'll get
plenty of hits. You want to make sure your site name is on each title.
Setting page title is on the Publisher page options dialog.

google doesn't really care to much about description or keywords. Though
once indexed google will display (typically) the description after the title
(remember that's important). google is more interested in the words on the
page then words stuffed in the meta tags.

Then there is relevance, or ranking (definitions may vary), basically how
many sites link to your site, how important are you. That is why link
swapping and content authoring are so popular. Because it puts your URL on
other sites legitimately.

There is a simple way to speed up how soon google indexes your site and
affect how often it returns. Join their adsense and/or adwords program. Both
are immensely popular because they work and are easy to use. Both programs
need to know your content hence you get indexed regularly.