How To Beat The Google Sandbox

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The Google Sandbox is an algorithmic filter designed by Google and implemented around March 2004 with the purpose of weeding out spam sites by placing all new websites under quarantine for a period of assessment.

How Does The Google Sandbox Affect Your New Site?

Although the Google sandbox was designed with the primary aim of targeting spam sites, in reality it affects all new websites. The general consensus in SEO (search engine optimization) circles is that the Google sandbox algorithm functions to prevent new sites from blasting their way to the top of Google (using whatever means possible) and in effect overtaking quality websites that have been around for years.

WHICH SITES GET SANDBOXED?

All new sites are subjected to a period of quarantine.

HOW LONG WILL YOUR SITE REMAIN IN THE GOOGLE SANDBOX?

As far as Google is concerned not all new sites are born equal. Certain factors will determine the length of your website’s duration in the Google sandbox. If the keywords your website is targeting are highly competitive then your website will be quarantined for longer. If you think about it, this approach makes sense. Most spam sites have one goal—to make as much money as quickly as possible. So accordingly the average spam site will target big-profit keywords which naturally tend to be more competitive.

Following this thinking, if your website focuses on keywords and markets that are not very competitive, your stay in the Google sandbox will be considerably shorter. Once again, this explains why niche market sites tend to ascend the SERPs (search engine results pages) much faster.

WHAT FEATURES DO SITES IN THE GOOGLE SANDBOX EXHIBIT?

Sandboxed websites tend to be characteristic of the following:

1. Do not appear in the Google Index

2. Have Google page rank without being in Google’s index;

3. Have good homepage page rank (4 or 5) but no PR for inner pages;

4. Have good Google page rank (PR) but rank poorly for primary keywords; and

5. Have a good number of inbound links yet rank poorly for primary targeted keywords.

THINGS TO DO WHILE YOUR SITE IS IN THE GOOGLE SANDBOX
Like most other situations in life, here you have a number of choices. You can sulk, fret, stamp your feet and moan and groan that the those tricky Google folk have hijacked your site—or you can get into the swing of things and utilize your time effectively:

1. Go ahead and add quality content to your fledgling site.

2. Work on increasing the number of inbound links (quality links not just any old link).

3. Tweak and improve the SEO quality of your site.

4. Write articles.

The list of things to do while your site is sandboxed is literally limitless. The purpose of doing these things is that by the time you site is released from the Google sandbox, it will rank much better for those competitive keywords you’re targeting and will have better SERP (search engine rank pages) listings than your competitor’s site that is equally new.

Because, instead of taking the effective action you did (while your site was under quarantine) your competitors spent the entire time fumbling around in the dark wondering just why the heck they couldn’t their site indexed by Google, let alone get any PR!

A word of caution though—Do not spend all your time trying to outwit Google. There are plenty of other methods to draw traffic to your site as well as other search engines to woo. Just implement good SEO techniques and with time they will pay off.

HOW TO SHORTEN THE TIME YOUR SITE IS IN THE GOOGLE SANDBOX

Is it possible to cut short the time your site spends in the Google Sandbox? Most SEO experts concede that on average any new site is going to spend at least 3 months in the sandbox.

However the good news is that there’re ways around this:

A. Register your domain name for more than one year (spam sites are rarely registered for longer than a year).

B. Upload your site for live viewing as soon as possible even if it isn’t ready for prime time (content-wise). Tweak the content later on or on-the-fly. The logic here is that the search engine spiders will crawl your site sooner. What is more, as you perfect and change the content of your site it will register positively to the search engines as constantly changing content (think blog).

C. Maintain good-practice SEO-linking campaigns. By doing this you will be killing two birds with the same stone.

Here let me explain:
THE NEW LINKS AGING FILTER

Other than the sandbox, Google has another filter in place aimed at reducing the effect of newly acquired links until a certain period of time has elapsed. The logic here is that your new inbound links will not be allotted full value immediately in an effort to counter the habit of buying links and other link purchasing schemes that people like you and I participate in to improve our search engine rankings.

This makes sense otherwise anybody with the cash could quickly acquire quite a stable of high page rank links and in effect outrank far older sites on the SERPs. One other thing about link acquisition—When you get links make sure you retain those links even though they aren’t apparently registering with the search engines to begin with. What is actually happening (as I just mentioned above) is that the search engines (notably Google) is sequestering your newly acquired links to ensure they are genuine long-term links, not links you acquired for say, one month or so, so as to get quickly indexed.

The Truth About Google Page Rank And The Sandbox

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There are many speculations out there about how long a website has to be around before Google will begin to give it a high ranking; all things being equal of course. It used to be well known that until a website celebrated its one year anniversary, Google placed it in a virtual sandbox. This is a place where a website is placed, virtually of course, where it cannot attain high rankings for keywords with large monthly search volume. Our testing has verified this to some extent. Let us explain further.

The reason for this minimum web site age goes to a very serious problem caused by flash marketing sites, targeted to marketing products. These sites often have a very short lifespan, so in order to minimize the potential for index contamination; Google has this minimum age imposed.

If you have a website, even if it has only one page, and you have had it online for at least a year, our testing has shown that you should no longer be imposed this virtual ranking cap by Google. This sandbox effect usually applies for keywords that have over 5,000 monthly searches, so potentially most of you would never run into this problem. Granted that your site has to abide by all of Google’s SEO guidelines, and be well put together with clean code and meaningful content.

Most people are led to believe by unscrupulous SEO individuals, that there is some magic strategy that can bypass this. Unfortunately, we have tested every variant to try and reach high rankings on new sites, before the one year mark, and we are confident in saying that there is no magic bullet when it comes to this.

Read all of our other articles, which individually touch on each important element in achieving great Google SEO results. This guide should give you a good starting point to help with your Google SEO efforts.

Keep an eye of the next guide, which will help expand on the topic of Search Engine Optimization. Take a look at our site which contains detailed information on Google SEO topics to help you get your site’s ranking in the top 10 Google Search Engine Results.

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Seo – get your site out of the Google Sandbox fast

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SEO – how to get your site out
of the Google Sandbox

Is your new site sitting in the
infamous Google “sandbox”? There is a way to get it out fast, as
well as getting all of your other pages indexed!

How?

Write an article on your site topic and
upload it to your website. You can either put it on your index
page, or place a snippet of the content with a link to your new
article on your index page. Then – submit your article to all
the free article directories you can find. It doesn’t even have
to be a long article – just as long as it offers value to the
reader.

Submitting your article to the free
article directories also means that you get instant valuable
back links to your site which is vital if you want to rank well
in Google.

How do I know whether my site
is in the Sandbox?

If your site is in the sandbox, if you
do a search for http://www.yoursite.com in Google, you will probably just see this
kind of information displayed on the results page:

http://www.yoursite.com

If your site is indexed in Google, the
results page will look like this:

http://www.yoursite.com

Your site description and what your
site is about will appear here.

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

You can also do a check at http://www.uptimebot.com to see
how many of your pages are indexed by the search
engines.

Proof that this method
works?

I recently registered two new websites
and linked to them from one of my sites that have PR. Doing a
search for them showed that both of them just showed up as
http://www.mysites.com which means that they were not indexed yet. Checking on
Uptimebot it showed that Google had one link for each of them,
but no additional pages.

After writing an article for related to
the one site, I uploaded it to my site and submitted it to the
various article directories. The next day’s search showed that
my site was in the Google Index because it was showing the
additional information about my site, and a check on Uptimebot
revealed that I now had all of my pages (20) indexed in
Google.

Now that I know this method works, I
will be doing it for my other sites as well. Don’t you think you
too should get writing?

Author: Joan Masterson 2005 All rights
reserved

Joan Masterson is the owner of Make
money from home and Work from home – sites that offer
information on making money from home.

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Google Sandbox | Did Your Marketing Website Lose Grip on Its Rankings?

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Google Sandbox is generating a lot of buzz in the SEO field, although is not well understood and is feared by many webmasters. As a website owner, you should learn as much as possible about the topic, how and why your site could find itself there and what to do should you find your site buried under the sand, so to speak.

What Puts A Site Into Google Sandbox?

Google Sandbox is generally used for websites which are newly launched and then arouse the suspicion of Google, usually by adding a large amount of new content in a very short period of time. This appears to Google as spam; and the Sandbox is essentially a spam filter which watches for suspicious activity, reasoning that a site which adds enormous numbers of new posts, pages and content instantly is probably filling itself with duplicate content or engaging in search engine spamming.

When this happens, these sites are put in the Sandbox and sidelined from the main Google index until it can be established that the site is not spamming the search engines. Of course, not every new site is considered to be Sandbox material and SEO experts are not entirely sure what specific triggers can result in a site being consigned here; it is believed that there are triggers as well as factors which have to do with the prevailing conditions on the web at the time that a site is launched.

For instance, if you launch a site about sports betting at a time when there have been many spam betting sites being set up, it will most likely be more difficult for your site to avoid being sent to the Google Sandbox and more difficult to dig your way out if it is.

It’s not only new sites (though these do make up the majority of sites which end up here) which may be sent to the Sandbox; older sites can see the same thing happen, usually as the result of tripping the same kind of triggers. Usually, this is the addition of too much new content all at once or a barrage of new links being added, especially following a period of inactivity.

What Happens if I Get “Sandboxed”?

When your site is put into the Google Sandbox, your site is still indexed and crawled, but you will be set aside when it comes to actual Google searches. Until you make it out of the Sandbox, you won’t show up in Google’s search results.

How Can I Get Out of Google’s Sandbox?

One thing you can be thankful for if your site is sent to the Google Sandbox is that this is not a permanent condition as being de-indexed is. While it’s definitely not a desirable place to be, you can get your site back into the main index by making the right kind of changes.

While your site is in the Sandbox, your responsibility is to demonstrate to Google that your site isn’t spam. One of the best ways to show the search engines this is to build incoming links to your site which are of high quality; the best links to add are those which come from sites whose content is relevant to your own and are themselves popular sites in terms of page ranking. Building these links can prove to Google that your site is filled with useful content rather than spam.

Speaking of content, you’ll also find creating high quality, unique content to be useful in getting your site out of Google Sandbox and back into the mainstream index. You should not copy content from other sites and if you ever repost anything from another source, you should do so with extreme care – providing completely unique content is essential to showing the world (and more importantly, the search engines) that your site is whitehated.

This content should not be packed with keywords; this is a sure-fire way to raise red flags to Google. Use keywords naturally and write for readers, not the search engines. Content that is well written and relevant to the topic at hand will contain your keywords enough to work for the search engines while being content that your visitors will actually want to read. Good content also helps your site to get more high quality links; the better your content, the greater value your site will have to others and the more links you’ll see coming in.

So, remember, if you find your site in the Google Sandbox, the best way to start digging your way out is to regularly add unique, genuinely useful content to your site and promote it through quality backlinks. Keep this up and your site will soon make it out of the Sandbox – fail to do so and it could be a very long time indeed before your site emerges.  

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How To Avoid The Google Sandbox

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There still is a lot of discussion going on wether the Google Sandbox exists or not. Some say it exists, some say it doesn’t. Just pretend it does exist, how is it possible that some SEO’s don’t get hit by the sandbox filter?
First of all, let me explain to you what the Google sandbox is. The sandbox filter is a filter that Google uses on keywords with high search volume and high competition. The whole mindset of the filter is that new website go in some sort of quarantine so they don’t rank high in the search engine result pages of Google. This quarantine could take from several months to a year. This was originally introduced to block out spam websites. Before the sandbox filter was born, as a spammer you could make a website, spam Google with it, get banned, and instantly make another website and get your original ranking in Google back again. But with another domainname. And because Google isn’t really fast in giving penalties and bans it takes a couple of months before the new domains get caught. This was easy money making in those days! But not anymore, because now the Google Sandbox filter will solve the problem!
But that doesn’t mean we’re really stuck to that filter. We are optimizing for search engines, and the sandbox is part of that, so there is a solution.
Only new domains trigger the sandbox filter. So a solution may be to buy an old domain name, or if you already have one, use an old domain name. But this is often really expensive and it doesn’t always fit your needs. But there is a solution for that: DeletedDomains.com. On this website are domains that come available the same day. Just search the age of some of the domains with the Archive.org wayback machine, and if you find an old domain, you can buy it at a hosting company for as little as 15 bucks. You can also take a look in Google to see if the website on the domain is still indexed in Google, that fastens up the process a bit. It doesn’t matter what domain you choose, the only thing you have to do is to 301 redirect the domain to your main domain. Then you have to hope your old domain get’s indexed again so Google will know that the domain moved permanently to the new location. This will give you all the linklove of the old domain and you get the age of that domain. So you can easily build your website and gain high rankings without any sandbox restrictions.
There is another way that I used. I had bought a domain, but didn’t use it at the time I bought it. I had plans for it but for the future. So I put a page on the domain, with a few backlinks to get it indexed, and a year later I started using the domain for real. But I could begin right away because the domain was already a year old!
This last one isn’t really a way to avoid the sandbox but it happens a lot that you buy domains to use in the future. It isn’t hard to get like 20 backlinks to it just to be out of the sandbox at the time you really want to start your website.

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Does Google have a sandbox?

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Unless you’re new to the SEO world, you’ve probably heard people
talking about the dreaded “Google Sandbox” causing their site to
get poor rankings. Some people go so far as to say “all new
sites must wait 6 months before being removed from Google’s
sandbox”, while others adamantly deny the existence of any type
of sandbox.

So is there a Google sandbox? There is no real Google sandbox.
New sites aren’t penalized. In fact, in some cases, new sites
are actually rewarded (MSN does this most notably).

Ok, so why is my new site doing so poorly in search? Well, there
are a couple of factors you need to look at.

1.)How many other sites link to you? 2.)How good is your
content? Is it fresh, deep and related to the topic? 3.)How is
your site hosted?

Before we get to what these factors have to do with the “Sandbox
Effect”, lets take a look at how new sites are most likely*
handled by Google.

When Google first stumbles upon a site, it doesn’t know anything
about it. All it has to go on is its content (which it quickly
indexes). Sadly, thanks to shady SEO firms and search engine
spammers content isn’t enough to make a ranking decision. It may
look great to the search engine, but how does Google know if
it’s of any value to users?

A great example is the site located at www.gstones.com. While at
first glance it looks to be a jewelry company, closer inspection
reveals that all the links are just search results. Sure it’s
full of content and looks great to the Google spider, but it’s
not really useful to a person. There is no added benefit in
using this site versus searching Google for “jewelry”.

Ok, this takes care of #2 , on to #1. How does Google tell if
your site is useful to a person?

Simple, they wait. After Google finds a new site, they then look
at what sites start linking to it, and how quickly in-links
start popping up. If 100 off-topic links pop shortly after a
site launches, Google starts to get suspicious. On the other
hand, as reputable sites start linking to you, you start
building rapport with Google. As links slowly get added, your
relationship with Google starts to grow. Think of it like
dating: It takes time (a few dates, and a sufficient amount of
money) to build the trust required for a loving relationship
(and a lot more money as that trusting relationship grows into
marriage).

You mean SEO takes time? I won’t see results over night? Now
you’re getting it!.

Alright fine I’ll wait, but what does hosting have to do with
this? Google is also a name registry. That means they know the
details about your domain name and hosting. Did you register
that domain for 5 years or 1? Most spammers tend to only
register domains for a year and drop them if they don’t generate
enough traffic, whereas a legitimate business will keep that
domain for a long time. (It’s also cheaper to register for 5
years versus 1)

What about hosting? Do you have a static IP? Are you hosting it
from your house? Who had your IP before you? What did they do
with it? Was it blacklisted as a spam site in the past? If so,
it may take a lot longer for the search engines to realize it
has a different site on it now.

A dedicated server with a dedicated IP costs money; a lot more
money than the $7 / month shared hosting plans many companies
offer. Which one is a search engine spammer more likely to
purchase? Having your own IP is a really good way to establish
rapport with the search engines (and it offers more flexibility
for your developers too).

A dedicated server is also a good way to prevent changing
hosting companies. Remember, even though your domain name is the
same, switching hosting companies may you back in the so called
“Google sandbox”. If you’re thinking of switching to another
shared host, you may want to start practicing your serve

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Google’s Sandbox – are you Boxed Up?

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Is your partner’s links not showing when you check on Google for your link partners? You might be sandboxed by Google. Google’s Sandbox is what all webmasters dislike and try to avoid. Check out the reason why and ways to prevent sandboxing.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best way to generate targeted traffic. It is the best source of high conversion traffic. Best of all, it is free. However, SEO requires a lot of techniques and understand of how a search engine ranks your website. So, this is not a job for a 13 year old.

Why target Google?

Till date, the most used search engine is Google, having at least 35% of the total searches, and at least millions of searches per day. Also, according to experience, users of Google are more willing to spend online compared to other search engine like Yahoo. Therefore, if you want to create a stream of traffic that is highly targeted and highly conversion, Google is the best one to target.

What is Google ‘Sandbox’?

Google ‘Sandbox’ is an algorithm that ‘traps’ your off pages search engine optimization by ignoring them for the time being. The period of ignoring can range from 3months up to more than 1 year.

Why sandbox my optimization?

Before the sandbox is introduced, there were many “black hat” SEO users around. They create websites and used “black hat” SEO techniques to let their website get rank high and fast. Knowing they will eventually get removed from the indexes of the search engine, they created a similar website with the similar content, and do “black hat” SEO techniques again. The profit from the previous website can easily pay off their hosting, domain and a lot other fees.

In order to combat this, Google introduced this sandbox algorithm. The goal of this sandbox is to temporary sandbox off page optimization IF you are gaining it too fast. For example, for a website to gain 200 over inlinks overnight is quite impossible. Therefore, when Google detects this, they will temporary ignore this in your SEO in order to prevent the “black hat” users.

How to prevent it?

The best way to prevent this is to grow naturally. Create inlinks slowly. Try not to exceed more than 8 per day. Remember, this figure cannot be carry over to the next day if not used. Having no inlinks for 10 days and creating 80 inlinks in a single is just inviting for troubles.

How to get out from sandbox?

So, you have noticed that you are sandboxed by Google. Well, the best way to get out of sandbox is… Wait. You need to wait until Google trust you that you are a trustworthy site. However, instead of just waiting, you can make use of this time to create trustworthy inlinks. Squidoo is one of a good way to create inlinks but do not spam them. It will result you from getting banned from Squidoo, and Google.

Conclusion

Google sandbox is not necessary bad for webmasters. Instead, webmasters can make use of this time and slowly gain trust from Google and get rank in this SERP.

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Driving Your Website Through Google Sandbox & Emergent Marketing- Website Conversion, Usability & SEO

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What is Google Sandbox?

Google Sandbox is applied on new websites, it determines the timing of site inclusion as well as ranking in Google search engine results (SERPS).

This process could take up to 6-8 months, which could be against your plans causing frustration to webmasters.

The question is what is to be done during the time in which websites are in Google Sandbox?

Do not waste time on checking your website listings in results page instead emphasize on SEO methods to accelerate your listings & improve status of ranking results.

Also make efforts to appear on other major search engines such as MSN & Yahoo since they do not have sandbox like Google, this will help drive traffic to your website while waiting for Googlebot to index your pages.

Link building strategy is another important issue not only will it improve ranking but also it will help Googlebot spider to find your pages easier while it’s in the sandbox instead of repeatedly submitting your website every time.

Content is king

Main part for ongoing development of your website is to add new content on continuous basis since the most thing search engines are after is good quality websites with relevant content.

Conclusion at the end is that waiting for Google Sandbox is nothing but a waste of your precious time; instead do some useful efforts on developing your website with relevant content & adding inbound links as a part of your linking strategy to make Google happy with what it sees as well as your target visitor.

eMergent Marketing- Website Conversion, Usability & SEO

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eMergent Marketing represents a whole new way of thinking about Internet marketing and eCommerce strategy. It’s no longer good enough to just focus on driving Web site traffic. With growing competition and increasingly savvy online consumers, it has become critically important to attract the right site visitors in the most cost-effective manner. By offering a more complete service than most traditional search engine optimization (SEO) firms, eMergent Marketing delivers more value to its clients by leveraging the in-house usability expertise as part of the search engine optimization and search engine marketing processes.

The eMarketing experts at eMergent Marketing have been studying and practicing search engine optimization since the late 1990’s. Their proven optimization methodology has helped countless companies improve their search engine visibility in the natural search engine listings and attract potential customers to their sites.

While eMergent Marketing continues to experience rapid growth, they remain focused on providing the highest levels of customer service and communications. According to Paul Elliott, President of eMergent Marketing, “The search engine optimization industry has historically been plagued by unethical providers and those who simply do not understand the complexities of search marketing. At eMergent Marketing, we go the extra mile to ensure our optimization clients know exactly what we are doing, when we are doing it, and the results our services will produce. While no ethical search engine optimization firm can guarantee first place rankings, eMergent Marketing has achieved outstanding results for all of our organic optimization clients – a fact our clients will be happy to share with you.”

If you are currently looking for an SEO company that provides leading edge results and customer service, eMergent Marketing is the logical choice. Their combination of experienced Internet marketing professionals with Web site usability and conversion experts creates the new standard for the Web marketing industry. Contact eMergent Marketing today to learn more about the Search and Conversion Methodology for improving the return on investment (ROI) from your site.

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The Google Sandbox Effect – How to Make the Most of it

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The sandbox defined

There are two things that need mention before delving far into the concept of Google sandbox. One, that there is no consensus among internet experts about its existence, and two that the sandbox effect is seen to affect only Google search while other search engines such as MSN or yahoo remain unaffected by it. Now coming to the actual definition of a sandbox, it is a virtual space where your website lies on hold or probation for some time before it is ranked well in the search engine results pages. This can be further illustrated by the fact that though new websites find a good ranking and better visibility in Google’s SERPs for the first couple of weeks after being indexed by Google, their ranking starts touching abysmal lows after this initiation period, despite original and optimized content, and even though the website has many genuine inbound links to it. So here, the sandbox acts as a typical filter which lists your website, but does not rank it well for the first few months. Almost all new websites which are indexed on Google are sandboxed. But curiously enough this does not happen because of a snag on the part of the creator of the website. It has been observed by SEO experts that more the number of competitive keywords used, the probability that the website will be sandboxed for a longer period is more. There is a misconception about the sandboxed site not being indexed by Google. In fact, it is indexed but is not well ranked for keyword phrases in Google.

That only new websites are subjected to be sandboxed is only half truth in the opinion of some internet experts. Well established sites that start getting numerous links from other websites all at once are also likely to be sandboxed. The reason is that Google discovered that spammers divide a single site into fragments so as to facilitate the exchange of links between them. Spammers also resort to creating new websites designed with the sole intention of providing valuable links to the main site. The sandbox helps curb the formation of new websites just to provide links to other websites. It forces the designer to include better content to be well ranked in Google. 

The need for a sandbox

Obviously website owners do not feel the need to have a sandbox at all because it restrains the traffic flow to their website, which a good Google ranking can fetch. But, Google felt that a website filter such as the sandbox was necessary to keep search engine spammers at bay. The creation of the sandbox can be attributed to search engine spammers who cracked Google’s ranking algorithm and started abusing it to their own advantage. The spammers built websites which did not live up to the Google standards, but still got top listing from Google because of the generously interspersed keywords within the content, inbound links and proper use of anchor text. Though eventually, these sites would be banned by Google, this was a milch-cow for the spammers even if they were on the top ranking of Google for a short span. The visiting traffic to their websites more than compensated the cost of building it in the first place. Even after the website was banned, the spammers could go about doing the same thing with a new website all over again. Google was particularly targeted by search engine spammers because of its alacrity in indexing new websites with a view to offer fresh stuff to their customers. As a solution to this problem, Google started running spam filters through which all new websites needed to pass during the hold period. Though Google never admits that the sandbox exists, webmasters confirm that new websites are sandboxed for the initial months. If Google found a website live up to its expectations through the sandboxed phase, it removed the website from its sandbox and placed it with the others in their SERPs.

Getting out of the sandbox

The only way to get out of the sandbox is to patiently wait through the probation period. Meanwhile focus on improving the website to your advantage. Try building traffic other than the search engine traffic, by including unique, ground-breaking content and increasing the number of affiliations that can provide inbound links to your website. If you wait for your website to get a good ranking after leaving the sandbox and then improve the site, it will not find itself well ranked in the very first place. So utilize the probation time to your advantage, because there is no way you can directly avoid it. And though it does not seem to be a good concept at the first glance, you will eventually realize the fact that the authenticity of the search engine will get a fillip because of the sandbox and, in turn, help your website once you get it well ranked with the search engine.

Recognizing whether a website is in the sandbox

Determining whether or not your website is in the sandbox is a process of elimination. You need to eliminate the possibility of your website being banned by Google. If your site is not banned, but your ranking with Google is still low, you need to eliminate the possibility of being sandboxed because of the high usage of competitive keywords. Lessen the rate at which competitive keywords appear in your website and try to use more non competitive keywords. If your ranking with Google is still low, you have, in all likelihood, been sandboxed. Other way to find if your website has been sandboxed is to see if you are well ranked with other search engines. If you are, and still not well ranked with Google, then you may have been sandboxed.

Harish Shetty, an expert on Internet marketing best practices and search engine optimization, advices on the methods to utilize the sandbox effect to the best of your advantage and ways of getting out of it as early as possible. In his mission against search engine spammers, he is all praise for Google to have introduced a way to beat them at their own game.

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Bursting forth from the Sandbox to top of the Google’s Rankings

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For a considerably long period, Google happened to provide new sites with a temporary boost, known as “fresh boost” or “new site bonus.” But recently this search giant seems to have set a new trend in place for Search Engine Page Rankings (SEPRs). It was found that that Google SERPs of brand new sites turned out to be pretty pathetic after the initial glorious days at the top of the search rankings. This phenomenon is popularly referred to as Google’s Sandbox.

Google’s Sandbox is like a quicksand

Though “Sandbox” sounds pretty pleasant, it very much resembles a quicksand than a playground as suggested by its name to many web professionals.

When a new website is indexed in Google, it gets propelled to the top of the SERPs charts for a short yet glorious time, and then, slides downhill only to be buried deeply in the sand at Google. In other words, Google’s Sandbox is about a brand new website being placed on probation, or a hiatus or in a moratorium and kept lower than expected in searches, before being given full value for its incoming links and content.

How does it affect the website?

The Google’s Sandbox is said to be a filter placed on new websites to discourage spam sites from rising quickly, getting banned, and repeating the process. Websites in the Sandbox does not receive good rankings for its most important keywords and keyword phrases. The new website will be there in the result pages, but it does not rank well no matter how much original, well optimized the content is and how many quality inbound links the site does have.

Which sorts of websites are vulnerable to be mired in the Sandbox?

While all types of sites can be placed in the Sandbox barring a few exceptions. The problem appears grave for new websites seeking rankings for highly competitive keyword phrases. More competitive keyword driven Websites seeking rankings in highly competitive searches are likely to be in for a much longer duration.

How long does a site remain buried in the Sandbox?

Hiatus in the Sandbox varies from one to six months, with three to four months being the average stay time frame. It has been observed that less competitive searches are given the much shorter stay, whereas hyper-competitive keywords often get sojourn in the sand for six months. The most frequent time of burial is said to be about three months for most search terms.

What distinguishes sites trapped in sand and a Google’s penalty?

Sandbox is a Google-only event. Many folks while they see good rankings in Yahoo and MSN Search of their sites mistakenly believe that they have triggered a Google penalty. However this is generally not the case in point.

Sites penalized by Google do not appear in the Google search engine results pages for even the less important searches. Moreover, sites which have invited the wrath of Google show no page rank, and have a grey bar on the Google Toolbar. And none is true in case of sites mired in the Sandbox.

Google’s Sandbox: Letting website grow to its natural evolution

Google is looking ahead for Websites that offer quality content. It is an effort to prevent spammers from creating web sites that are just a flash in the pan, and to discourage the violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines which was not an exception in the past, to say the least.

Google’s Sandbox has deliberately been instituted to put a check on the use of throw away spam sites to build early traffic, and to slow down the purchase of expired domain names, among other things.

Google continues to strive that its ranking algorithm, inbound links, original content rich with keywords, and the use of anchor text are not tampered with for a short term gain severely affecting its credibility and quality standards. This stand is driven by the vision of Google that Website should grow gradually to its natural evolution.

Getting grounds before getting grounded in Sandbox

Getting grounded in the Sandbox is almost near-universal for sites. So, it is the best to be prepared for the eventuality. Planning ahead to be buried in the Sandbox may lessen the damage, using the time to your best advantage. To keep the Sandbox filter from causing severe harm to your online, and even your offline business, employ the following strategies:

All your apprehension and concern apart, your stay in the Sandbox is simply an excellent opportunity to improve upon your site, and enrich it the way Google will never ever refute to accept in the top rankings. You can dig in the sand to carve out a niche in your site optimisation.

Here’s how you embark on…

What do you need the most while in hiatus? Right Strategy Mix, Time and Patience

The Sandbox is not something you are eventually doomed to. It is not the ringing of death knell for your site either. It is not aimed to hold you back from succeeding.

Time and patience are your best friends while faced with this predicament providing that you execute the right strategy mix. You may not need to pull all the hair out of your head. Adding some powerful incoming links, with strong link anchor text, and adding relevant and rich keyword, and fresh content will help your site rise from the Sandbox, sooner than the later.

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