Re: In index out of index. In index out of index. In index out of index. In index out of index ....

Tom, I understand your frustration, but what you say makes no sense.
TGIF *)

Your URLs popping in and dropping out is a typical behaviour with
recently indexed new pages. The reason is, that Google operates many
data centers around the globe, which may have different indexes because
they all are updated steadily 24/7/365. Caused by load balancing you
may see results from another datacenter every few seconds. Once your
stuff is settled in the search indexes of all data centers, you'll see
more stable results. The same goes for your rankings, which can change
daily, for example when Google discovers new links to your pages, or
old links disappear, or you've updated pages ...

"I can call local newspapers and get my ads in the publications in less
then 24 hours."

Did you give Google your credit card details when you submitted your
sitemap? How much did they charge you? Nothing. Sitemaps is a free
service.

If you want to see your URLs spread all over the SERPs in no-time
submit them here:
https://adwords.google.com/select/

"Where as Google Local and the Google Index takes months and years and
then the pages indexed are gone and ... "

Google crawls Web sites, organizes their contents, and makes them
publicly available and searchable for free. To satisfy their users with
accurate and relevant search results, they check each page they crawl
for compliance to their quality guidelines:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Nearly all legitimate sites created and maintained in compliance get
indexed and fairly ranked eventually. If you didn't earn enough trust
and reputation on the Web, work harder. Google doesn't list sites
without reputable vouches from trusted sources.

Since it's Google's search engine, they have the right to apply
criteria of their choice when it comes to indexing and ranking. If you
want to make use of this free service, you have to play by the rules,
not by your amateurish expectations on how Google search should work
for you. If you can't manage to follow these simple guidelines, then
hire an expert to get you indexed.

In some areas it's not that easy to make it on the first SERPs, or into
the search index at all, because Google has to fight massive abuse and
every now and then legitimate stuff suffers from collateral damage in
Google's war on spam. If you think that may apply to your stuff, then
hire an expert to get you out of the spambox.

In some areas the number of potential results is that huge, that old
and established sites lead the SERPs while new stuff gets buried beyond
the 1,000-visible-results boundary. Look at your market and your
competition, then ask yourself whether your stuff is worth a higher
ranking. Or better try to look at your site from a huge search engine's
perspective, and from a search engine user's perspective.

Telling us that Yahoo and MSN did index your stuff means absolutely
nothing. They don't provide the traffic Google can generate. Their
quality guidelines are less stringent, their indexes are way smaller,
so they have to index more questionable stuff (at least currently, this
newcomer behavior will change soon, and then you can whine about how
unfair Yahoo and MSN are too).

Whining and posting false assumptions will not help you. Learning the
game and making great pages for your visitors will help.

Sebastian
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/google-sitemaps.htm

*) I'm still improving the readability of my TGIF posts, so don't feel
offended ;)