In this matter, patience would be the best advice, After submitting your website to a search engine, it might take up to a month to get indexed, Do not resubmit, Some engines will also index your pages in stages, for example, google will index your page without caching it and with only small info about the page, as your web page climbs the ladder of ranking the page will eventually be cached on there servers.

As we said, patience is the key, with today's search engines doing your work with integrity, honestly and perfectly will get you included sooner or later, and with a website worth visiting your rank will be fair after a while.

If you think you have done a better job than some other website that started with you and still there pagerank on your google toolbar is higher than yours, there may be many reasons for that

the category they are competing in is easier to rank in, They have something done correct that you don't, They have much more people linking to them than you do.