More sandboxing problems at Google with a big name brand - this time it's Chris Pirillo's TagJag site, which was 301'd several weeks ago from the Gada.be domain. Let's see what the search engines have to say about this high profile move....
Yahoo! (tagjag.com)
Pretty good - they know about the domain, and they're ranking the cheerleader tag in 3rd position, which I can respect (though I'm more into the librarian-types myself). I do note that a search for tagjag itself doesn't bring up the site until position 27 (and that result is the cheerleader tag page), so we're seeing a little of Yahoo!'s relatively new sandboxing effect, first noted between 3-5 months ago.
MSN (tagjag.com)
MSN is doing a terrific job of picking up the new URL, and their results look a little less... shall we say "high school?" They're also ranking the URL first for a straight TagJag search - no sandboxing in Redmond (yet). I'm proud of them for giving Chris a little trust.
Google (tagjag.com)
That's weird... let's check out some other related searches:
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Gada.be - gives me the same result - no information
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TagJag - they're not in the top 100 results, and neither is Gada.be
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Check the headers - nothing wrong there; it's a clean 301 re-direct
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Site:gada.be - only one result not in supplemental; Google has serious trust issues with Chris.
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Link Check at Yahoo! - Oh, that explains it... There's only a half million or so links pointing there. No wonder Google doesn't think it's important!
Seriously, this ugly sandbox "we don't trust new domains or 301s" business is getting mighty old. Let's hope there's a solution in site.
so far for the sandbox story;) just something wrong..
Well, thanks for the attention, anyway. :) I should show y'all an early alpha of the next iteration of TagJag. Love what SEOmoz does...!
Huh. I didn't even mention this one and it was working..
I noticed the fix propogating just a few minutes before I made the comment... But... I believe you, Matt. :)
But check a few of those other searches (site:, gada.be, etc.) and you'll still see lots of funny stuff going on.
It looks like they just fixed it. Ahh, the power of blogs...
Nice one Rand :)
I just redirected about half of the posts on my personal blog evankroberts.com to my new on LostReview.com and it took about a week for Google to switch the URLs, the rankings dipped for about 2 weeks but are right back up there now.
My point being the chris' issue must be a freak thing, or maybe mine was!
isn't the site penalized/banned for a reason? Is there contact with google about this?
people shout SandBox to often to my opinion.. could be lot's of other things
Well, the domain is not really new, it's been created in 2002. But I don't know when they started to use it. Archive.org doesn't have any record for that site. That's pretty weird.
Once thing I will try to do: add the word "TagJag" in their title tags instead of "search", and also on their pages.
Google has cached their site on july 17th, but a search for site:https://tagjag.com/doesn't bring any result... Man, Google's is really broken.