Sandbox = not being indexed??

Hi,
about 4 months ago I decided to purchase a domain name for one of my websites, which was previously hosted in a subdirectory of one of my existing domains.

I set up a permanent redirect to the new domain name.. and waited.. and waited.. and waited.. but Google still does not even list a single page of the new domain. When search for the domain name in Google it comes up with 0 results, while there are still over 6000 pages of the previous web address (subdirectory) listed.

Google crawls the site on a daily basis and it reads the xml sitemap, but still won't index the site.

Any ideas?


Steve

 

are you positive it's a correct (301) redirect and you're not redirecting with a 302 or a meta refresh or javascript?

in any case, this has nothing to do with the sandbox. sandboxed sites are indexed but don't rank.

 

What is the best way to check whether your site or a page is sandboxed? Thanks @disgust

 

type a unique phrase that relates to ur site only if ur site is there is not in must have trip some filter at google if its not then may be ur site doesn't have enough backlinks to rank.

 

That's not what my definition of the sandbox is. I thought the sandbox prevented "new" sites from appearing for popular terms.

Not being indexed isn't a sign of being sandboxed - it's a sign of being banned from Google IMO?!?

 

There is no such thing as the sandbox, thats just a fly-by night term made up by some SEO head.

As SEO Kate said, its a filter (one of many) that gets tripped.

Not being indexed on Google is not a sign of the sandbox or tripping those filters as they can only happen when you are indexed.

 

But Matt Cutts mentioned on one of his interviews (which i forgot the URL unfortunately) that SANDBOX is existing.

 

Yep snadbox is alive and well. I suspect lately that Yahoo wants to play in the sandbox too.

 

Sandbox is a filter that prevent new sites from potential spamming possibility. It lasts for about a year, preventing your site from getting into top ten Google. But not from indexing

 

sandbox is not equal the not being indexed. sandnox prevents sapm sites . if you continue adding content to your site and find links for your site , you will be out of sandbox

 

It takes anywhere from 4 to 7 months of good search engine optimization to get out of the sandbox.

 

tell me when ur site is in a sandbox and u go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitestatus then does it show a date of about 3-4 months past??

or does it update the date?