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Does this happen normally?

Launched a new site over the weekend, and set up a few backlinks to get the site indexed - not many, about 3 so far. Checked yesterday evening and the site had been indexed. Yay. Couldn't find it ranking anywhere, but no big deal.

Checked again today to see if it was ranking anywhere yet, and it isn't -- still no big deal. But then, I got the bright idea to check to see if it was still indexed. It wasn't.

I've heard of the Google Dance up and down the rankings, but between being indexed and not?
#deindexed #new site
  • Profile picture of the author ilee
    Thats unlucky, I've never heard of this happening. But then again I never backlink my website until it gets indexed
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    • Profile picture of the author ExploringInfinity
      Doesn't sound like something that would happen.

      Is it actually deindexed, or do you not know what you're talking about?

      search google, site:yourdomain.com and see if any results come up.
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      • Profile picture of the author PimpSEO
        It sounds more like sandboxing, or maybe it`s just dancing and dropped way down in the SERPs or disappeared temporarily and will be back soon. I don`t see why it would be deindexed.
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      • Profile picture of the author wannabewarrior
        Thanks everyone.

        ExploringInfinity: That's the check I performed in the first place to see if it's indexed or not indexed (site:yourdomain.com). Indexed yesterday, not today.

        Bhuff: Thanks, I'll be patient and check again later.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
    If it is a new site, it may appear and fall out before sticking. I've had quite a few new sites where the pages would index first before the actual root domain. Once I would check it and it would be there, then the next minute it was gone.

    Give it about a good week to settle in and double check again.
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  • Profile picture of the author guitarjosh
    If it's deindexed, it ain't comin' back.
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  • Profile picture of the author outwest
    I would think its a huge red flag if google finds a site and it already has backlinks
    how did the sites linking to it know the site was there yet? if it was not indexed yet ? anywhere?

    might be the reason
    live and learn
    put it on a new domain and move on
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    Probably not an issue at all. You could be getting results from different datacenters. If the site had been around for a few weeks or months and then got deindexed, you'd have an issue. Give it a few days.
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  • Profile picture of the author wannabewarrior
    outwest: If there are no links at all, how would Google find the site in the first place to index it? I'd get it if there were a ton of links out there -- that would look really suspicious. That's why I only did a few.

    JamesGw: thanks -- my thinking was that the site is so new that it hasn't been around long enough to do anything itself to cause a deindexing, so your note makes sense to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    This is completely normal. This has happened to me a number of times before. It 'may' disappear for 2-4 days but will then come back. Just remember to build links gradually.
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  • Profile picture of the author xylement
    I'd say give it a week or so, as long as u did a site:domain.com and you see results it should be no problem. I got my sub post pages indexed before the root domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author RevSEO
    Nothing out of the ordinary here, it could be that the datacenter that you checked on hadn't been updated yet to the latest index. This is typical since Google deals with so much information.

    Keep in mind that if this happened on a website thats years old and had been indexed then you'd probably have a problem. A new site? Not so much and most likely a datacenter that hasn't been updated yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author wannabewarrior
    Thanks again, everyone. Indexed again this morning. I guess it was just a new site blip.
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  • Profile picture of the author georgehofmann
    I had a similar problem with one of my sites, it was there one day and gone the next, but for me it turns out it was only a very slow internet line that caused the problem, its back again.
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