carneddau - 9:20 am on Sep 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi,

This sounds familiar to me. Up until around March this year new sites were being indexed and included usually within 4 weeks. Since then I've launched a couple of new sites and they're not showing for any keywords. They're being crawled and pretty much all of the pages are included in the index, they just seem to have a filter (the sandbox) keeping them out.

I'm don't want to bad-mouth Google over this as they've given me some great (and some scary) months over the past few years. Although I will say it does seem a little backward, what use is a site put up to advertise an event or provoke discussion on current events if you can only find it 8 months after it was launched?