Hey Graham, be proud. I remember when I was first indexed by Google. What an exciting day. And we all started in the same place, haha.
Your journey will be full of exciting firsts!
Keep us in the loop, and if you need any extra help, be sure to let me know, OK?
Cheers,
Suzanne

Congrats Graham and super progress.

So that you know it means that your site was found by Google and now it is a good time to start adding content if not doing so already.

However, first your posts get indexed and often days later down the line start getting noticed provided targeted keywords are searchable, new websites can rank efficiently.

But typically "authority" for a website starts to get established through time, usually the 3-6 month mark.

They fluctuate up and down the scale till Google decides where to place them.

Not all posts will get ranked, thus the recommendation to keep updating blog 2 - 3 posts a week and that's for the foreseeable future.

And just for some clarifications.

I hope this helps.

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.

Congratulations it's a big step!

Awesome, nice work on getting found by Google Graham. This is going to happen with more and more frequency and with more and more efficiency as you continue to build out your website. :)