So what do you do at 2 a.m.?

I have been playing detective.  Yes, it is 2:17 a.m. and I am here in my chair, trying to figure out how to get my website to show up on the search engine.  Mind you I am not computer ignorant yet I am not a programmer either.  I have no budget so it is like do it yourself or die trying.   I had to create a .TXT document for a sitemap which had to have a specific format which reads like a foreign language.  Then I had to figure out how to get google to recognize this document after I uploaded it.  Still not sight of my site on the search engine (say that fast five times!)  We will see what tomorrow (or today) brings!