{"id":527,"date":"2006-10-11T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2007-01-24T23:59:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T06:59:56","slug":"real-estate-weblogs-and-the-google-sandbox-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/527\/real-estate-weblogs-and-the-google-sandbox-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate weblogs and the Google Sandbox of Doom . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new domain<\/a> going live tonight, the first custom web site we have done for a real estate listing built as a weblog<\/i> instead of a static web site<\/i>. When we talked about this before<\/a>, Free the Drones wondered if custom web sites might get lost for a span of time in the postulated Google sandbox<\/a>, a place where Google, at least hypothetically, exiles new domains to make sure they are not spam, scams, who knows what.<\/p>\n

The weblog is far from being finished, but I have results to report. I registered the domain on Sunday, but, because of a MySQL problem, didn’t install WordPress until Monday. The first new post on the weblog showed up at blogsearch.google.com in less than hour. I blogrolled from the new weblog to BloodhoundBlog, but this was the only thing I did in the way of an outbound link — or anything else of a proactive SEO nature. That link showed up in Technorati within a few hours. I’ve been wrestling with content engines, so the weblog has bascially sat around doing nothing since Monday.<\/p>\n

This morning it showed up on the main Google search engine<\/a>, along with its own pet splog!<\/p>\n

Three days from registration, two days from going live as a WordPress weblog, in a painfully retarded form. Free the Drones would argue that the Sandbox would keep this weblog from scoring high<\/i> on searches, but the only searches people are likely to make will turn up this weblog, given that it’s there. And: I don’t know if a static web site would have become available as quickly.
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Technorati Tags: arizona<\/a>, arizona real estate<\/a>, blogging<\/a>, phoenix<\/a>, phoenix real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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