Design Code Execute started as a side project on randyapuzzo.com. The first post, swap alt with ctrl, was located on randyapuzzo.com/design_code_execute was digged as a test and google indexed it immediately, literally 6 hours after the site was created. This was super exciting, so exciting that DCE went ahead and purchased designcodeexecute.com and made the switch within a day, re-posted the alt ctrl post and was up 2 days after randyapuzzo.com/design_code_execute/ was up. Now while the switch took place both sites were up at the same time and the ALT CTRL post was exactly the same on both designcodeexecute.com and randyapuzzo.com. As well as the alt post 5 other posts were made the day designcodeexecute went up. One article was dugg and bam! Google had indexed the whole site over night. Designcodeexecute.com was getting nailed on google from people searching swap alt ctrl. This all happened over one day. The next day all traces of both websites designcodeexecute.com and randyapuzzo.com were gone on google! All that was indexed was the homepage and when being searched neither site was found on the radar! This caUsed huge angst and nothing can be done because google's algorithm must have blacklisted both siteS for duplicate content. Right away I took action and removed all traces of design code execute from randyapuzzo.com. We are checking google sitemaps for our pages to be indexed again and so far we've had no luck.

In the past i've had better experiences with both MSN and Yahoo. I've had MSN LIVE nail a site of mine 3 days after going live without being submitted. I've noticed that msn and yahoo always has more pages indexed on all my sites contrasted to the few that google indexes.

Other things that to be noted about Googles algorithm:

• Pages that link to other websites are penalized where the page linked to receives a higher page rank
• There are sites out there that scrap your content and reproduce it on their site to get indexed. Google decides which one is legit and blacklists the other. Algorithms aren't perfect so Google commonly blacklists the wrong site and hurts the page ranking of legit sites

I love Google; this is in no way a hate post. DCE would like algorithms fixed and to be indexed again!

Check if Google has indexed us here

UPDATE. We've been indexed again but are no where to be found when querying

Google provides some nice tools they don't brag about. Here are three.

Google Site Submission Site submission is the easiest way to get googlebot crawling your site.

Google Sitemaps Google sitemaps is a hidden gem. Basically you submit generated sitemaps in XML format to google. When googlebot comes around again it use the sitemap, rather then the just the site index. Google sitemap also provides some sweet stats. One useful stat is the most common keywords that google sees in your content. When your ready to submit a site map there is an awesome sitemap generator called GSitemap Generator.

Google Analytics Google Analytics, the gem. Unfortunately you need both an account and an invitation; these invitations aren't like gmails classic invitations either. One must put in a request to google for an invitations and wait... Signing up is worth a shot, google analytics is like awstats on crack. Just imagine if google wrote awstats... Sign up.