Here are some other examples from Webmaster Central which gives an insight in to how Google treats new websites. There is often the discussion (Wallace, 2005) that the sand boxing (a testing/validation environment) of new websites takes place that are entering the index. This is highlighted in the following graphs which show Mumbles.co.uk, an established site and well respected in Google, although varying greatly on a daily basis is reasonably consistent from month to month.
This image shows the number of pages crawled per day by Google Bot on Mumbles.co.uk
Figure 61 shows the number of kilobytes downloaded per day by Google Bot on Mumbles.co.uk
In contrast Tenby.info is a recent launch for the platform, notice the gradual increase in the amount of pages that Google crawls, this is to do with the sand boxing that Google implements with new websites that enter its index. This image shows the number of pages crawled by Google Bot on Tenby.info
Sand boxing
When attempting to be indexed by Google and before any kind of rankings are awarded the search engine will want to know the source of information is a credible one and understand what type of content is being offered. This is known as the sand boxing period and will result in any version of the Citys.info internet franchise being put in to one of hundreds of categories, hopefully all sitting in travel/tourism. This means hopefully competing with like for like websites on competitive terms.
Various sources believe this categorisation is a manual process which can take up to 3 months. It is realistic to think this is the case and would keep the quality of the index high allowing for benchmarking in analytics packages against other websites in a sector.
