Beside blogging on various topics (mainly search engines and information architecture), another intention with this site/domain was to observe how spiders and search engines behave with new sites/domain.

First infos were about who’s the fastest spider. The data showed that getting indexed by the major players is quite easy and fast.

Now I will continue with some presumptions which must be regarded only as that.

5 days ago this domain dropped sudenly from Google. What were the symptoms:

- when doing the following query in google:

site:www.razvan-antonescu.info

the result showed ONLY the URL instead of title, no text snippet and no cache

- when searching for my name the page had dropped from first result to nothing and gave only garbage results (I think those garbages will be the topic of another post)

- the googlebot came on a daily basis

Those were clear signs of sandbox effect. But everybody says that sandbox lasts at least one month. Well after only 5 days everything is fine.

Presumptions

- with a new domain make all the necessary preparations to get indexed
- sit untill you get in the index
- continue yor job and avoid constructing too many external links (be it relevant or not, spam or not)
- wait for sandbox to install and DO NOTHING
- if I am correct if you are not caught with overoptimization the storm will end very quick
- after you get back do whatever you think is good for you but use common sense and respect the spiders and the others (that sounds like lame preaching but you got the ideea)

Tags: Google , Google Sandbox , SEO , Search engine optimization