New domain, new site, indexed in 2 weeks

[webpro00801]

FWIW - I am working on adding some micro content sites for an international city. I registered some new names and on October 4th put the first site up. Today it is #13 on Google for the 2 word domain keywords (for example the domain is "key-word.com" and a search on "key word" is #13). As far as I know the only link to it is from a blog I run that Google doesn't seem to like at all... I just think you never really know how/why they pick something up (or drop it).

[tedster]

It has been a relatively common pattern for a new domain to show up in search results for a short, initial period and then disappear. It begins to re-appear as trust is established with Google, often for the long tail searches first and then eventually for the more common and potentially competitive terms. This combination of various filters has been called the "sandbox effect". You may appreciate this thread: Filters exist - the Sandbox doesn't. How to build Trust [webmasterworld.com].

So well done -- lots of things must be right for the domain to show up. And if it does disappear in the near future, that isn't a sign of something gone wrong. Also, what has been in past years may not be the same going forward -- there's always something changing with Google -- but I did want to give you warning that things may not yet be stable.

[webpro00801]

Yes - I have seen that too, initial indexing, every page in the index, and relatively decent search positions - and then it disappears! That happened to a site I started about a year and a half ago. That situation is even more frustrating than not being indexed -

[Theo_B]

If your website has only one backlink, and maybe it is not on a competitive request so Google didn't keep it in the sandbox (or filter, it is the same thing : if filters are applyed on the new websites, it seems that the sandbox exists).
It probably explains why google was so fast...

/Sorry for my English, I'm French ;)/

[edited by: Theo_B at 5:00 pm (utc) on Oct. 22, 2006]

[webpro00801]

Could be - it is definitely a non-commercial subject. I am also just thinking that the whole of the Google index is a lot more fluid than it used to be - results seem to constantly change, which may be tough on those of us here who are trying to make a living, but may benefit their users (at least in theory!).