As of today, there is evidence that there is not an all out ban on the new domain name with Google. I like to set up alerts in Google (I like the real-time option) so that I know when there has been a change in the in output from the Google algos for site’s I’m working on and today, I received my email that there was a change in the output for metapilot.com. Since the alert is for “metapilot” which covers both domains, I have to check the source code of the alert emails that I receive to see which domain the included link is alert is referring to (probably should just change it to “metapilot.com”).
Up to now, all my alerts have been showing only continued/additional indexation of pages in the .net domain, since Google only recently started fully indexing that site. (The overlap between it indexing the site for the first time, and the site being 301’ed over to the new domain is another story).
So anyway, the source code had some good news–there was finally reference to the .com. Going over to Google and doing a search on “metapilot.com” and “www.metaplot.com” (click to see screen shots) now show the site as a result.
That same email alert also referred to what may be the only other reference to my .com domain that Google seems to know about (outide of hold-overs for the old domain that, until today, I thought were long gone–see the coffer maker page that all of a sudden show up the “metapilot” search). That other reference in the alert is for a free listing I recently submitted to the site www.topseos.com and though there is no outbound hyperlink from that site to mine, there is a URL reference in my little ad. Is it conicidence that that listing showed up in the same alert at the same time as google started displaying results for metapilot.com or did my listing there help toggle my showing in Google?
Another possibility for inclusion at this particular point in time (other than it just naturally taking this amount of time to do so) is the google reinclusion request I submitted 3 days ago. Though my general feeling is that it would take more than three days to have a site reviewed after submitting the request, it’s possible, I suppose that it had something to do with it. As far as the request goes, I wrote two formal ones–kinda “by the book” type requests and trashed them both. The one I sent in was a lot more fun to write and I was hoping it would be more fun for the reviewers (thus help my plea).
Here’s how I wrote my Google reinclusion request:
I am the new index page at www.metapilot.com. My family (all listed at www.metapilot.com/sitemap.txt) and I just moved over from www.metapilot.net and as part of the housecleaning, we’d like to file this reinclusion request.
Our new home was recently acquired after the previous owner let the domain expire and from the looks of things, that previous owner may have been “on the other side of the tracks” from “good neighborhood-type sites” like ours. We say that because, though it’s been some weeks since we announced that we were here, we’re still feeling excluded from the loving, caring arms of the Google Index.
At our .net home, we were squeaky clean on-page and off and our entire family was fully indexed. Before moving, we each put up our 301 notices and, from afar, we’re seeing now that the kind Google Index is recognizing them. We’d like to point out that we’re the exact same pages that we used to be over there and that our door is wide open should the welcome wagon want to take a closer look.
Thanks for taking notice. We do so strive to be worthy members of our community.
O.K., so it’s a little hokey, but it’s hard to write something as boring and drab as what it seems like you should write when you’re requesting reinclusion from Google–and truthfully, I just wasn’t up to the task on that particular day.
All of those goings-ons are excing but there is still nothing for the “site:www.metapilot.com” or the “site:metapilot.com” (click for screen shots) searches in google, which is kinda strange but not out-of-this-world-weird in early results listings.
At this point though, I’d expect to start seeing results for that site:domain search start showing up within a week or two. If a month goes by without seeing that search being populated with pages from my site, I’ll have already been rethinking my knowledge level of the algos but for now, I can let out a little sigh of relief.
