Google New Site Penalty
 

quoted from a post on another webmmaster forum:
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I made the mistake in February of launching some new sites and assuming Google would index them and rank them along with what I'd come to expect from such SEO skills as I possess. I've done pretty well in the past.

BIG MISTAKE!. Google now penalizes new sites. Take a look at http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum78/4722.htm

While new sites are indexed, it seems its impossible to get a new site to rank well.

So, I've taken simply to adding to existing sites until this is cleared up. Seems there's no problem obtaining ranking when adding pages to sites that had ranking before the first of this year.

This should cut out newbies from being a much of a factor in our market, given the fact that Google will dump adwords for pharmacy sites after mid May. Then the only competition from advertising will be from Drugstore.Com and their ilk. Those established with decent SEO from older sites may well benefit.

Thoughts anyone?

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I dont think so, my sites created on 2004-feb also get some hits from google, and u? what u think? lets discuss

Henry

for the 99% of ppl who dont have membership to webmasterworld, could you post the article pls? =)

webmasterworld = 99% people talking right out of their asshole about SEO

yes

:1orglaugh :glugglug

It's 100% true. Google is not indexing new sites. Stop building new sites.

NOW!

still quoted from the post on that forum:
some more details:
Upshot is since about Dec last year it appears new sites get crawled and indexed but won't rank - for any/nearly any terms ijnckluding pretty non-competitive ones. Seems to be taking up to 3 months to see any results. Older sites that pages are added to don't have the same problems suggesting some sort of penalty/filter/flag on new sites.


BTW, Im also dont have a WMW subscription yet..

where did u heared that? but why my new sites created on 2004-feb still get some google hits????

LOL ever heard of sarcasm?

it seems to be true. Not that sites are not indexed, they are indexed but getting low ranks and PR. I don't know about the dates, but sites that used to be well ranked in 2 months top now it takes 4-5 to the least. At the same time, Yahoo became faster to get higher ranks :)

I hate SEO :BangBang:

hahaha, OMFG, dude, read that post again!

maybe its seems google started new better anti-spamming tech than yahoo

I think that post is only a scam to prevent new competitors

THe thread is 22 pages long atm, here are some of the highlights:

No shit. All that does is raise the barrier to entry. If I was an estbalished SEO veteran I'd be on cloud 9.

mine too ...even through the ones I put together in march

I know what the trick is..... and I am not telling :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

the trick is.... nope I won't tell...

oh crap, here it goes: stop building new sites. pronto. it works best for sites that were up since 1998 or longer. all after 1998 is crap to get listed nowdays.

didn't know newbies are competitors.

if true, it'd be a good way to curb the freshbot spammers

i have pages i just put up less than a month ago that are already pr4 and getting google traffic....why is that?

Get out your umbrella. The sky is falling.