My article site is about 4 months old. In last crazy google PR update my site got PR 5 and indexed few hundreds pages. Recently I discovered that google does not return anything if I search my URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayarticles.com%2F&btnG=Google+Search . Google returns “Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.everydayarticles.com." But google also show that my site have 308 pages indexed site:everydayarticles.com. What does it mean? I have not done anything with my site lately. I am totally confused…. Does it mean my site is in sand boxed after 4 months? As an article site I am not targeting any particular keyword. I have not done any marketing or directory submission either. Can someone explain me what is going on?
The sandbox is a filter applied to new sites where your backlinks are not factored into your rankings. It has nothing to do with indexing or PR. If your content is not unique it could explain your situation. Google likes original content. Your site also has validation issues which I would fix. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.everydayarticles.com/
Even if a site is sandboxed it should still appear in the SERPS for it's own name. I'd be worried about a penalty or ban if I were you. If you've tone anything against Google's policies fix it and file a reinclusion request.
Would you mind sharing the promotion techniques that you used? You have been de-indexed from Google. If you could share your marketing strategy then I could help shed some light on why this happened so that you can avoid doing it in the future.
Netwhip... I have not done any marketing at all. I purchased this domain when I thought article sites are hot and easy to build but soon found out market is way too saturated. So I bought an article database and put up to my site. Google picked up my site and indexed few hundreds pages. In April PR update my site got PR 5 unexpectedly. Since I got busy with other projects and lost interest to article site, I stopped developing this site. I don’t even have article submission option yet. My thought was let be aged the domain until I figure out something. Last week I found out that it does not appear in the SERPS for its own name which got me worried. Although Google shows it has 308 page indexed. I could not think of anything doing wrong.
Maybe penalized for duplicate content? A million other websites probably had that same article database...
New website get this all the time. just trie to get yourself listed and then start advertising. I heard some sandboxes can last for 6 month or more.