How to fix if new site hit by index penalty?
I registered a new domain name and put a website with 155 web pages (mainly blog posts) but its been a month only 5 URLS of my site are indexed on google search. I’ve already verified the site in GSC, submitted the sitemap file, and even tried indexing manually all the 155 webpages. It seems the new site got hit by the 5 URLs index penalty as many users are talking on this forum and other communities like blackhatworld and webmasterworld. Is that true that google has such kind of index penalty and how to recover and fix my site from this google penalty?
Google index penalty seems to be real. If you either use expired domain or a new domain name and blast 100 or 1000 blog posts, or web pages on day one, then its sure google will tag your domain as spamming. The best way is to fix this is gradually warm up the googlebot by submitting 2-3 articles or pages a day. Publish only 2-3 posts daily and increase the limit to 5 or 10 after 3 or 4 months. Else google will stop indexing your pages and will display only five URLs in it search results. Also, those URLs will never rank. So avoid using indexing services, or blasting hundreds of URLs on new domain or site built on an expired domain.
I have a similar issue with a test site on an expired domain but over 18K web pages are still indexed, they just don’t rank for any search query. I was beginning to think the site had some sort of penalty because it was previously related to a health niche. New pages don’t rank and restored pages also don’t rank.
Spamming google with a new web-site doesn’t work as well as it used to, Even for expired/auction domain, it will raise a red flag and get penalized in no time. Avoid blasting URLs. Publish 1 or 2 articles daily. You can’t publish 50K posts on day one. Goo-gle will index them but not rank!
warming up the google-bot slowly and gently is the key to get all article pages indexed.