Google hates "-" in the domain name? [1 Week with no index]

FrozenGod · 08-13-2010, 01:08 PM

Hey there Rico is here, I have a really important question to all the SEO experts, I was working on SEO Friendly Squeeze pages and Blogs for something like 8 months till now and i NEVER had this kind of issues - EVERY website i built was indexed in no more than 24 Hours on google (I'm HTML, CSS and PHP Expert). Now here is the question, i made an automatic Blog for testing purposes and it's UP & RUNNING for a week now EEK! but for some reason the big G is not indexing me and i think i got banned from the SE for a while lol.. my domain name have - in it [ XXX-XXX.com ] and every day when i try to search for [ inurl:XXX-XXX.com ] i get couple of pages with results of other websites with this words in it and like 50 websites with the backlinks to my website (I did around 7-8 BackLinks every day). Can i imagine that the reason for banning me from the SE is the Auto Content? I Don't know... Maybe someone has this problem in the past and can help me with this one? I will really appreciate any help on this subject. Thanks, Rico S.

JennSpencerIM · 08-13-2010, 01:15 PM

It can take longer than a week! Do you have a lot of content on the site?

Backlinks Weekend · 08-13-2010, 01:20 PM

Yeah, I also have a domain which doesn't have a "-" between keywords but Google took a week to index it. Hyphen doesn't affect the index rate of Google. Maybe you should wait more.

FrozenGod · 08-13-2010, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JennSpencerIM

It can take longer than a week! Do you have a lot of content on the site?

Well yep i have like 40 posts ont he blog.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marketify

Yeah, I also have a domain which doesn't have a "-" between keywords but Google took a week to index it. Hyphen doesn't affect the index rate of Google. Maybe you should wait more.

That's why I'm asking cause till now for every site i built it took around 24 hours for google to index it so I'm amazed by the fact it's not indexed a week!

Thanks for the reply's guys

deloriagod · 08-13-2010, 02:49 PM

I've had my newest site for about a week and it has a dash so I could get the keywords in it and get a .com. It currently ranks #4 for the keyword in the domain.

Steven Carl Kelly · 08-13-2010, 03:10 PM

Dash isn't a problem.

Zeus66 · 08-13-2010, 03:12 PM

Hyphens have nothing at all to do with it. And as someone who has put up a ton of sites in my time, there's no question that Google's indexing timeframe can be wildly erratic. If a month goes by and still nothing, worry. One week is nothing.

John

discgolftraveler · 08-13-2010, 06:37 PM

1 Week is not a long time to index a new site. Give it a few more weeks before you start to worry!

08-13-2010, 01:08 PM	#1
FrozenGod ~ The Good Life ~ War Room Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: UA, In The Scripts. Posts: 137 Thanks: 12 Thanked 38 Times in 13 Posts	Google hates "-" in the domain name? [1 Week with no index] Hey there Rico is here, I have a really important question to all the SEO experts, I was working on SEO Friendly Squeeze pages and Blogs for something like 8 months till now and i NEVER had this kind of issues - EVERY website i built was indexed in no more than 24 Hours on google (I'm HTML, CSS and PHP Expert). Now here is the question, i made an automatic Blog for testing purposes and it's UP & RUNNING for a week now EEK! but for some reason the big G is not indexing me and i think i got banned from the SE for a while lol.. my domain name have - in it [ XXX-XXX.com ] and every day when i try to search for [ inurl:XXX-XXX.com ] i get couple of pages with results of other websites with this words in it and like 50 websites with the backlinks to my website (I did around 7-8 BackLinks every day). Can i imagine that the reason for banning me from the SE is the Auto Content? I Don't know... Maybe someone has this problem in the past and can help me with this one? I will really appreciate any help on this subject. Thanks, Rico S.
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Zeus66 John Schwartz War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Near Dallas, TX, USA Posts: 3,734 Thanks: 1,660 Thanked 3,336 Times in 1,179 Posts Social Networking	Re: Google hates "-" in the domain name? [1 Week with no index] Hyphens have nothing at all to do with it. And as someone who has put up a ton of sites in my time, there's no question that Google's indexing timeframe can be wildly erratic. If a month goes by and still nothing, worry. One week is nothing. John

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