make money on the internet

This make money online review blog did an experiment with domain names using different extensions. I was curious about the Google sandbox which is some deep hellhole where Google banishes new domains instead of indexing them. Apparently, it is a Hellforge-like fortress that no domain can get out of for at least 6 months, which is the reason SEO experts recommend buying used domains that are at least a year old to avoid this dreaded sandbox.

Bear in mind that I am reporting my own very non SEO-expert experiences. I bought 2 fresh domains – one a dot com and another a dot info within a week of each other. Both were put online using WordPress with no content – they were blank sites.

I installed All-In-One-SEO and Google Sitemap Generator and also upload a standard robots.txt file. That’s about it. I did not submit the urls or sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools as there was no content to crawl.

I registered the dot info first so I set about adding a few keyword optimized pages and meta tags. There were a total of 7 pages of content at the end of it. Then I submitted the url and sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. I used a free online search engine submission service which submitted the url to about 8 search engines. After about 5 days, I checked if the site has been indexed by doing a Google “site:” search. Nothing came up.

Next, I registered a dot com and set it up the same way with WordPress, again not submitting anything to Google. I added 3 pages of content to it and submitted the url and sitemap to Webmaster Tools. A day later, all pages of the dot com had been indexed. I added 2 more pages and they were indexed almost immediately.

The dot info url was indexed soon after but was much slower. So when buying domain names, stick with dot coms. Any SEO experts who’d like to share their expert opinions on this?