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Anyway, the domain (a .co.uk) was purchased on Thursday 16th december this week. The domain had propagated by the friday, and a beta site was uploaded.
Checking today, Sunday (only 3 days) after the domain was viewable by the world, it appears to have been indexed by google already!
I logged into urchin stats, expecting to see virtually nothing in there, and was suprised to see 50+ sessions already when the site would only have really been seen by friends etc.
# Report Name: Referrals
# Date Range: 12/18/2004 - 12/18/2004
#######################################################
(no referral)29
google.co.uk/search11
www.google.fr/search1
www.google.com/search1
aol.co.uk/web1
As you can see, for yesterday (saturday) there were 11 referrals from google.co.uk, 1 from france too.
When I search for www.mydomain.co.uk it is listed in google and there is a cache from 4am yesterday.
After looking at the referrer log, and plugging keywords into google (quite specific such as red+widget+other+term) I am listed for some terms within the first 20 results.
The site is in beta at the moment, has no meta tags just a <title> tag and a quite basic style sheet.
The domain returns no results using link:domain.co.uk and 1 result (the site in question) for +domain.co.uk so I im assuming this domain wasn't owned by anyone else previously. The site is not listed in alexa and has no history there either, so im fairly sure this is a new domain that hasn't appeared before.
So in summary
Day 1-Register domain
Day 2-Domain propagated and submitted to google
Day 3-Not much
Day 4-Indexed and actually bringing referrals.
I noticed for some of my other sites, that backlinks have recently been updated, so im wondering if this was a coincidence and that I somehow managed to sneak
in?
I submitted some other .co.uk's roughly 2 months and 2 weeks ago respectively, both of these have still not appeared in google!
Maybe this is too early to say, and maybe there will be another update soon which might see my site disappear into the much talked about sandbox?
Should I be happy, or is this common?
Probably not, and yes.
Brett_Tabke from this thread [webmasterworld.com]:
- Registered a new domain last wednesday morning.
- DNS resolved and site was good-to-go by 10am.
- Threw 25 pages of content on it and adsense.
- Linked to it heavily from a pr6.
- spidered wednesday 11am by google.
- received about 40 referrals wednesday night from Google.
- no referrals on thursday and couldn't find it in the index.
- found it in the index on friday and received 30 referrals.
- could not find it on saturday.
- sunday found it in the index.
- generated about 200 referrals so far.Sandbox? What's that? :-)
It has floated in and out of the index. After the initial burst of referrals and rankings - it has went flat with only a few referrals per day. eg: welcome to the freeze...pass the ice.
Haven't heard of a thaw yet, welcome to the board btw.
enjoy it while it lasts...the entire week or so ;)
Getting a site index AND ranking well for the terms you are targeting is the sandbox.
"I submitted some other .co.uk's roughly 2 months and 2 weeks ago respectively, both of these have still not appeared in google!"
Google likes to find sites by following links to them (the google submission thingy is somewhat worthless IMO). Point a few links to them and you will get those sites indexed far quicker.
