I bought a domain at Godaddy last night. Today I was starting to upload some pages and creating the website, when I did a check at google and I found the domain has been indexed! WTF??!!! How did this happen?? It is a new domain I bought a few hours ago, and I haven't posted a single link to it. Google is just so strange...
Hello fryman. The same thing happened to me with godaddy. I stuck up a robots.txt file until I was ready for spidering.
Do you use the Google toolbar? I had a site that I am certain was never linked to and Google found it. I think Google uses the data from the toolbar, and since I visited my own site while building it, I believe that's how Googlebot found out about the URL.
Godaddy submits it for you, since they have a landing page with all their contact info on it by default. IMO
I think your are probably 100% correct. Next person who purchases a domain name with Godaddy should look at the page they put up. Would love to know about title and meta's they use. S
I changed the nameservers as soon as I got the domain, it was never parked at Godaddy, and no, I don't use the toolbar
Google tracks all changes in the domain registry to: a) find out about new sites quicker and spider them, like in this case b) remove pagerank from expired domains Many sites also link to newly registered and expired domains. Myth busted!
This is the first time it happens to me... can't complain, I sure am glad that the site is already indexed... now I will start feeding the spider so it crawls all my pages
I can confirm the google toolbar theory. Pages are indexed as a direct result of searching for a particular page URL location in the google toolbar. Also - any domain registered becomes potentially indexable after an engine finds public of it's registration. Maybe too it was GoDaddy but it's still not known until someone registeres through Godaddy, never installs the google toolbar, never creates an inbound link, and ends up being indexed. That leaves Godaddy and public registration data as the options. I never post anything to a public folder, and avoid the toolbar until I'm ready to be indexed and the index.htm and site is ready.
Hello spamfork. >Maybe too it was GoDaddy but it's still not known until someone registeres >through Godaddy, never installs the google toolbar, never creates an inbound >link, and ends up being indexed. That happened to me about eight months ago.
"Google tracks all changes in the domain registry to: a) find out about new sites quicker and spider them, like in this case" I'm not necessarily disagreeing with this, but if it's true, how come there are constantly people complaining that Google won't index their new site? That statement seems to imply that Google indexes all new sites within days, but I had several sites this year which Googlebot did not visit until I linked to them.
It's happened to me twice - although, more recently ... in the past it used to take a while to get indexed.