New domain indexed within 12 hours

A newly registered domain indexed by Google within 12 hours.

[selomelo]

Late night, I registered a new domain with an US based registrar, and activated it adding an "under construction" page.

At noon time, while placing a permanent redirection to handle the non-www problem from the very start, I noticed that my newly registered domain is crawled. When I searched Google, I saw that my site already indexed. It took less than 12 hours to be indexed!

I have no inbound link, no referring site, etc. that would enable to visit my site. So, there must be something else.

I have google toolbar installed. And typed my domain name a few times while checking if the permanent redirection works.

I know that Alexa toolbar has such a function, since it crawls and lists those pages that has no referring link whatsoever, pages that continues an isolated existence on a site, and never cravled by any search engine (uploaded to the site for testing purposes, or for personal uses only). Alexa displays such pages as "More on Alexa."

Is there anyone with a similar experience? And any idea as to this indexing with a speed of light? I thought that this can have important implications, and therefore wanted to share it.

[JKMitchell]

I registered a new domain

Was it a completely new domain (never been registered before) or one that had been used in the past?

If it's completely new all I can say is "You lucky ****" ;-)

Cheers

John

[pmkpmk]

Happened to one of my domains a couple of months back too.

It took a day or two until it appeared in the index. However it is STILL not yet RANKED properly!

[eljefe3]

I added a few one page wonders with no links, not usign a toolbars etc. for a couple of PPC campaigns. Googlebot seems to find these domains pretty fast even though there really isn't a trail expcept from a PPC program, or access to every new domain that is registered :).

[ByronM]

my new sites get added fairly quickly - matter of a few days.. however they often dissapear.

How long does it usually take to get PR? all of my recent sites are pr0 and generally it took a few weeks before. Now?

[texasville]

I have to say that is lucky. Could be if you are on a virtual domain it might have stumbled onto it.
I have a new site for a client that I placed a link to from another clients site and now it's not being crawled. I've sent out a few requests for links from some topical sites and haven't heard from any of them. Hoping to get google to naturally pick it up.

[ann]

I added my new site to Google's add a URL and the next day it was indexed. That was the 6th, it still has no PR and shows a grey bar even though I have links from several sites.

It is ranking #1 in serps for a key phrase but nowhere to be found on major keyword.

[selomelo]

JKMitchell:

You are right. I checked whois history and found that the domain name I mentioned was registered & expired before.

[annej]

In his blog Matt Cutt said that PR is updated every three or four months now. (Oct 19) Since it was just updated it will be a while.

My impression reading this is that PR is there sooner but not visable on the bar.