Help me to discover if my site was penalized

[autoprimate]

Hello builders! I decided to open this thread in here because I feel is the best place to get a serious and precise response.

Short story long:
I started a a new blog a month ago (CCarters Big Brand style) and got a hell of reactions and buzz on other sites of my niche. Problem is I’m having issues indexing some post and pages and I suspect that the blog was penalized by Panda…

Some facts:
- I registered my domain back in 13/07/2015
- Sooner after that I installed my theme with the demo posts, categories, pages, etc.
- The demo content was online for a week or so and I’m afraid that panda was released while the demo content was on my domain.
- This is how my Craw Errors page of WMT looks (errors appeared after I remove the demo content):

Current issues:
- I’ve two pillar pages (not post). High quality articles one with +2500 words and the second with +4000 words, a hell of unique images and videos. None of these are indexed and were published more than a week ago.
- Normal post takes around 5 days to get indexed (kinda a problem because there are blogs copying my articles, some of these post get indexed BEFORE my posts).

Question:
Do you guys believe my site was affected by panda or this is common for new sites?
What would you do in my case?
I’m getting crazy backlinks from a few .EDU and big blogs on my niche so even when my site is new I’m reluctant to change the domain because the brand I’m building

 

[Calamari]

Don't panic. I see nothing that makes me think over optimized. New sites and even established ones can take more than a week to get new pages indexed.

I wouldn't do anything other than keep adding the type of content you already have been.

 

[autoprimate]

Don't panic. I see nothing that makes me think over optimized. New sites and even established ones can take more than a week to get new pages indexed.

I wouldn't do anything other than keep adding the type of content you already have been.

Thx men. I am going nutts with this.

 

[Ryuzaki]

I'd mark those errors as "fixed" in WMT if you haven't. They'll gain more trust in your site as you assure them you aren't littering up their index.

Otherwise, I'd just wait. It's still "early." Your publishing schedule may not be frequent enough or even established as a pattern yet to warrant Google updating their index over it yet.

If you want to know what pages are indexed or not, do this search on google:

site:yourdomain.com

Also, you can search specific URLs to see if they are indexed.

Are you doing anything weird like pinging your articles to a giant list of aggregators or anything?

Ultimately, I think if you stay the course you'll see this problem resolve itself without your intervention.

 

[CCarter]

Panda - no way. Your site is literally 31 days old, you are brand new - you got nothing to worry about. Just keep adding new content and pages. btw, CCarter big brand style releases with 50+ pages of content pages, not 2 - I know people like skipping steps and "I'll add it as I go along" but that's not the strategy of a proper launch.

Also this still applies today more so than ever: Blue Hat Technique #10-Teaching The Crawlers To Run

(Yes it applies today still, I just said that!)

 

[juliantrueflynn]

I wouldn't worry about the site demo content on their for a week at all, I've done that with plenty of sites. In the early stages of developing a brand it wouldn't be abnormal to see a weird temporary drop in organic. There's many variables here too (i.e. accuracy in GWT reporting).

Like @Calamari said I would just keep going with it. At 40-50 indexed pages you don't have to stress over this yet. I'd focus on areas such as community-building, outreach, and the results of other channels.

 

[autoprimate]

I'd mark those errors as "fixed" in WMT if you haven't. They'll gain more trust in your site as you assure them you aren't littering up their index.

Otherwise, I'd just wait. It's still "early." Your publishing schedule may not be frequent enough or even established as a pattern yet to warrant Google updating their index over it yet.

If you want to know what pages are indexed or not, do this search on google:

site:yourdomain.com

Also, you can search specific URLs to see if they are indexed.

Are you doing anything weird like pinging your articles to a giant list of aggregators or anything?

Ultimately, I think if you stay the course you'll see this problem resolve itself without your intervention.

Hi! thx for your reply.
No, i am not doing any pinging. Just the old wmt manual index.

Panda - no way. Your site is literally 31 days old, you are brand new - you got nothing to worry about. Just keep adding new content and pages. btw, CCarter big brand style releases with 50+ pages of content pages, not 2 - I know people like skipping steps and "I'll add it as I go along" but that's not the strategy of a proper launch.

Also this still applies today more so than ever: Blue Hat Technique #10-Teaching The Crawlers To Run

(Yes it applies today still, I just said that!)

Yep, i've 2 pages (+2k of of words) and 30 post (500-1500 words) so far. But i mentioned those two just because aren't indexed.

 

[Philip J. Fry]

Relax, you're fine.

I looked at your graph and thought it was super abnormal since you went from 30 hits/day to 0... then I realized that's crawler errors.

Crawler errors and indexing rate has nothing to do with penalties.

If you see a huge drop in search engine traffic from Google, that'll be a sign that you might have been penalized.

Also, before you make a post like "My brand new site's getting 0 SE traffic even though I've got tons of links from big sites in my niche," it'll take at least 6 months before Google will give you all due traffic.

Just keep at it, you're doing great.