May
31
Well, the first page went up on my new site on the 10th of May, pages were added on the 12th of May and the site was already ranking for few keywords (technical, not commercial) by the middle of last week. It took about 10 days total, from when content first went up to ranking on a phrase with 145,000 pages returned.
This page, ranking at Google for mod_rewrite htacess
There are, as of now, a total of 18 pages on the site and they are all indexed at Google. One inbound link, though a couple have been added since then. There won’t be a “link campaign” as such, the site is far from ready and there are no commercial purposes, but truthfully I just wanted to see how the Google “sandbox” effect would work with this domain. I assume it’ll be safe from site scrapers, since it isn’t a commercial site, is not intended to be, and has no commercial value.
Several things we can look at regarding the “age” of a site:
1. When was the domain first registered?
2. When did the domain first go online, with or without content and with or without any inks.
3. When did the first link to the site/domain first appear?
4. When did Google first find the site/domain via a link?
5. When did the content go up, and what’s the date for pages in the last-modified headers?
6. TrustRank
And then there’s a matter of TrustRank - which is not something that’s totally divorced from “sandboxing” issues, not by a long shot. TrustRank is not brand new, the first publicly published papers I’ve found on it date back to 2001.