I made this new website (kinda secretive on this project) and it was one of the wieredest things. The sites still being worked on, I showed it to maybe 2-3 people (just normal friends), and the site within 2 weeks of being up has google send me 4-5 people, one of which emailed me to ask me about my service. I found this pretty strange how it could get crawled like that with no exposure from anywhere.. The domain must of got listed on like "recently purchased" domains or something??
well, i saw a stranger situation. I added a new webpage... lets say.. page999.htm to my website. No link from other sites, no links from my own website. 3 hours late googlebot goes to my site and made a single request... page999.htm Strange... how could gogle know? I use google toolbar... maybe... humm...
I think I remember a blogpost from Yahoo that they indeed search for new pages using the toolbar and I can only suspect Google does the same...
I got a new domain once, with nothing on it, no link to it, nobody knowing of it. It was listed in Google one week later. The only explanation I found, was this: there is some sites which list all new registered domains, with a link to it. If Google crawl those pages and follows the links, you get crawled as well. Another explanation in your case would be perharps that one of your friends visited your site with the Google toolbar.
Same thing has happened to me. New domain, no backlinks nor i did show it to anyone. One week later i get indexed. Could this be google bar?
Its just i assume that in order to display PR the toolbar has to query Google. So when it does a query and it returns no results Google thinks... Hmmmm must be a new page! Lets crawl it...
'The' reason why I stopped using toolbars. I had the same thing happen to me on several occasions. viewing the content in your browser is the only thing that seems to be needed.
Google only updates the backlinks every few months. Is the website cached? Do you have adsense, as the media bots now take back information for spidering and indexing.
I think that the metter is toolbar (if you use it ofcourse). Toolbar is not for only showing PR or search, but also it sends info to Google about your internet activities!
The Toolbar does not send info about the sites your browse. It sends other info about your comp and browser usage. No site info is tracked by the Google PR. it cannot be the google pr. Check the google for link:yoursite.com and link:www .yoursite.com one of it will surely return a result. If you dont see results then the possibility is that you submitted your site manually to goog. This usually takes 2 weeks to a month but you can get listed on goog if you did a manual submission and if your site is a less competitive one for that particular keyword. i have a site which has a keyword which is the least competitve but with a decent daily traffic of 2-3 , Goog crawled it in a month. I am still on the top and there are no links to the site from any pages. Beleive it or not!!! its on the top for that keyword.
I saw this happen once with a friend's site. He was uploading photos for a popular sport event for schools. The site (new domain, never registered before) got indexed in 3 days!
oh :S I think that MSN is pretty accurate and i didn't find anything www.msn.com linkdomain:http://replacedsite.com
Maybe a couple of things, these are just random guesses: if you have the Google toolbar, it pings Google so it knows there is a page there and can index it better. If you have AdSense the same happens. If you don't want it to be indexed you could just use a robots.txt file.
Sorry but this statement is quite flawed. From the privacy policy for toolbar: Notice the 'For example' meanng that this is just one feature example of quite possibly (and almost surely) a larger set. Also notice the '..imporve the quality of Toolbar and other Google services'. Well if only one Toolbar user visits a particular site then that data becomes the aggregate. Google didn't get to where they are by missing any opportunity to mine data from multiple sources. I would imagine from a business perspective that the toolbar represents another data collection node as opposed to being a useful tool for their customers (although it fills both roles quite well - hence its popularity).