Google is Really Slow to Index my New Website

[sbrault74]

(Sorry for my english!)

A quick background: I had a website at thewebhostinghero.com which had been slapped left and right by Google (both Panda & Penguin). It also had a manual penalty for unnatural links which had been lifted in late april / early may this year.

I also had another domain, webhostinghero.com, which was redirecting to thewebhostinghero.com.

When I realized I would be better off starting a new website than trying to salvage thewebhostinghero.com, I removed the redirection from webhostinghero.com and started building a new website. I waited about 5 or 6 weeks before putting any content on webhostinghero.com so Google had time to notice that the domain wasn't redirecting anymore.

So about a month ago, I launched http://www.webhostinghero.com with 100% new content but I left thewebhostinghero.com online because it still brings a little (necessary) income. There are no links between the websites except on one page (www.thewebhostinghero.com/speed/) which is set to "noindex,nofollow" and is disallowed to search engines in robots.txt. I made sure the web page was deindexed before adding a "nofollow" link from thewebhostinghero.com/speed => webhostinghero.com/speed

Since the new website launch, I've been publishing new content (from 2 to 5 posts) daily. It's getting some traction from social networks but it gets barely any clicks from Google search.

It seems to take at least a week before Google indexes new posts and not all posts are indexed. The cached copy of the homepage is 12 days old.

In Google Webmaster Tools, it looks like Google isn't getting the latest sitemap version unless I resubmit it manually. It's always 4 or 5 days old.

So is my website just too young or could it have some kind of penalty related to the old website?

The domain has 4 or 5 really old spammy links from the previous domain owner which I couldn't get rid of but otherwise I don't think there's anything tragic.

[Chris.Menke]

One month old is very young to be expecting search traffic. On the other hand, being so closely connected to a triple-penalized site, being a month old, and having questionably original content, isn't going to give google the warm fuzzies about the quality of your site. I'd be making sure my content was spotlessly authentic and more than that, I'd be figuring out how to create some engagement with it--that's what would really speed things up for you.  Your content may be providing relevance but authority is going to come from engagement.

[sbrault74]

What do you mean by "questionably original content"? Apart from 2 of these 3 tools (http://www.webhostinghero.com/tools/). The rest is 100% original content. No spun content at all. Of course it's going to be similar in a way because both website are about the same topic but other than that, I didn't rewrite anything, it's all new.

[Chris.Menke]

It's just that the very first search I did with a piece of your content showed results for duplicate content. I'd did a few  other checks after that did, in fact, come up clean. By the way, something seems a little off regarding your pagerank--it's kind of strange to have that kind of PR with the back links I see in OSE.

[sbrault74]

Yes I did notice the PR thing too and I don't get it either.

At some point, webhostinghero.com was redirecting to thewebhostinghero.com (at the domain registrar level).

Could it be that the PR for webhostinghero.com is the one from thewebhostinghero.com?

I think the best thing would be to completely shut down thewebhostinghero.com but webhostinghero.com isn't profitable yet. Thewebhostinghero.com still brings me a little income.

Jeez I'm stuck on this one...

[Chris.Menke]

Live or not, I don't think there's a difference in the impact thewebhostinghero.com has on webhostinghero.com at this point.  So long as they're not linked, whatever is done is done.

[sbrault74]

The traffic is actually climbing on the new website but I have a hard time having Google crawl some of the pages.

Out of 63 pages submitted (and I mean pages, not posts), only 5 pages have been indexed.

It also seems like Google doesn't get the latest sitemap often. To this day, I always had to resubmit it manually.

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[Chris.Menke]

At a month old, that's not unusual.

[sbrault74]

Ok great then, maybe I got concerned too soon.

Thanks for your input!