Hi, I am facing different behaviours from the search engines that are crawling some of my sites. I have also created a sitemap and submitted it to google to hope for a better ranking.. but google is totally ignoring them, maybe sandbox effect? No, I'm not using any black hat technique nor spam in them so they are ok and I don't think they got banned because they never figured out in google.. So as we said Google is totally ignoring them even if I see googlebot getting my sitemap on a regular basis from my raw logs. MSN has got 21 pages indexed of one site and 1 page indexed for the other one. This is really a few in confront of the total amount of content included in those sites. Yahoo literally loves my sites and everyday more and more pages are indexed in the SE got 60 listings on one and 243 on the other one, increasing on a daily basis..!! By the way the most traffic I get is from MSN even if the pages indexed are really a few and got only 1 hit total from Yahoo What do you think to be the reason of the strange behaviour of the search engines? Can we learn something of their algos analyzing this situation?
Google is usually much slower to index new pages and links than the other two SEs. And keep in mind that just because your site is indexed doesnt mean that it will rank well and generate traffic. Avoid using dup content and get more BLs and be patient.