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I am very new at this whole website thing. I was wanting to start my own website and I’ve heard of websites charging you a monthly fee and a cost per click fee. I’ve read all there is to read on yahoo domain and web hosting and it says nowhere in there about cost per click. But I was just wondering if anyone has tried it and what all the hidden cost were including the cost per click, if they have one?? Any answers will be helpful.

First how do I tell if my site is even in google’s database. Someone showed me how to, you enter a code in googles search box to search direclty for your site but I dont remember how I did it.

Second. After I determine my site is in fact in google, how do I check its pagerank and how fast it will show up for searches?

Thanks everyone