I came across your page while searching for an answer to the last updated situation. I created my site at the end of August this year and find that I show up on the special source, and last updated, etc, but only if I filter it by tags. On Activity, I don't show up at all. It's disheartening because I was using blogger for my site (I set it up around late December last year/early January this year and found that I
was getting no interaction on it. I decided to join neocities because there is a strong book community on here, (as I have other sites) but I doubt that it will grow much here because I don't show up anywhere.