For the last month, I've started building a great site, tons of content, people with great pageranks are giving us links back, but Google, MSN, and others are being fickle and not including us in their search results. I did some research on archive.org and found out the domain name for a while, (most of 2005) was used by a porn spammer. Does this hurt me? forever? Will google and the others be smart enough to realize it's a new site?
Yes, I expect that this will be trouble for you for a long time. How do you get off all the black lists after you completely changed the domain name's stripes? Sorry, wiz
However, 1 month is a little early to judge the major search engines. I used to get 1 week updates on my very well established web site when I add new content, now it can be as much as 6 months. Get google to send you alerts on your URL to see what they are finding. wiz
I've been using google webmaster tools, this looks to be good news, right? No Indexed pages in your site No Pages that link to your site's front page No current cache of your site No Information we have about your site No Pages that are similar to your site Should I give it another couple of months and see if Google crawls and uses my site? My sitemap has been uploaded and they successful saw all the links.
I think you are jumping the gun. You have reason to be paranoid, but I think if you begin a strong marketing effort and create a real, useful site you will break through it. I'm pretty sure there is a Matt Cutt's blog on the subject. Brandon
MSN/Live.com this week just grabbed my site and is sending me a TON of traffic, so should I assume then that the domain name has no negativity in the eyes of the search engines? Do you think Google will follow MSN/Live.com soon and include my site? Has MSN always been this fast to crawl and include sites?