I think so, it was before I published. Lucked out I'd say.

The way you know it's ranked for a good keyword is that it comes up on Google when you enter that keyword as a search term. This cannot happen before you publish. Are you sure you don't mean that your site was indexed?

yes indexed. my keyboard wasn't working and I had to shut down then reopen.

Congratulations on being indexed by Google. It's a great first step. Your next step is to write good content that gets ranked for your desired keywords/search terms.

Just so that you're clear, there's a difference between being indexed and being ranked. Indexed simply means that your website's pages and posts appear in Google's database and can be found by their URLs. This happens automatically as Googlebot crawls the web but can be speeded up by using Google Search Console. Each page and post is indexed individually. There's no such thing as "the site". It's a collection of pages and posts.

Pages and posts are ranked for particular keywords/search terms. This is what you're striving for. So that your post comes up on page 1 when someone enters that keyword/search term.

thank you, I think I just lucked out, hit the right word when putting together my blog on the assignment