How would one know wether you are indexed by google. or sandboxed? I've just made my first website about a month ago. i am on msn and yahoo. but i cant find me in google. if you are sandboxed how whoud someone get out?
Neo, The first thing you need to find out is has the Googlebot crawled any of your pages? If your host has a logfile analysis package such as awstats you can look there to find out. If your hosting account allows you to have shell access to you can scan your logfiles via: grep ebot/2 /etc/httpd/domlogs/domainname.com # Your logfiles will be in a directory that looks something like /etc/httpd/domlogs/domaname.com # but the exact location my be different Code (markup): If Gbot is in fact crawling your site then just be patient. After you get 10 posts here at DP you should update your signature to include links to your site. Googlebot is very active in DP and the odds are that a link from here will speed up the process. As the previous poster said, you can verify that you site is in the index by using the Google advanced search function "site:www.domain.com" . If it returns a value then you're there. But keep in mind that the sandbox (new site dampening filter) does not come into play (if at all) until you're in the index. -jay westmark