Comments on: Understanding the Google SandBox

By: Lora Lee

Lora Lee — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:22:19 +0000

I have a new website and just recently almost fainted when I saw on my SEO toolbar that my PR was 6. This only lasted for a few hours and it suddenly went back to zero. Does this mean I was sandboxed too? Or do you think it was just a glitch in my toolbar?

By: Κυτταριτιδα

Κυτταριτιδα — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:18:35 +0000

I have tried pushing a website to its maximum. About 2k links/week. Brand new website. Nothing happened. The Google Sandbox is a Myth.Why this ? because the backlink indexing rate will always be bellow 10% so it is a kind of natural linking. Now, if you are about to build 10k each day, then, you will get sandboxed.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:38:18 +0000

Thanks for your feedback, erevos!
As long as you maintain a steady tempo in building backlinks – regardless of whether or not if they’re indexed immediately – there won’t be any issues with the site being sandboxed. But it does exist. Just blast a new site with hundreds of links one day and then stop for a month or so; the site plunges well below first 1000 search results. This is based evidenced with massive blog commenting where the backlinks are indexed naturally by Google fairly rapidly – in a weeks time or so.

By: erevos

erevos — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:32:55 +0000

I don’t think that Google has a sandbox these days. I have a lot of new sites(3 – 6 months) that rank in the top 10 results for high competition keywords. I make hundreds of links every day for all of my domains and i have no problems at all because the links are not indexed the same day.
(New Sites = Poor Results) that became known as the Sandbox effect and had controversial definitions, does not exist anymore (in my opinion). Matt Cutts confirmed the sandbox existed, somewhat, in his Coffee Talk with Brett Tabke 7 years ago. But since then, they did not discuss it much.

By: sem

sem — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:11:33 +0000

Just build leglitamite links if you have been sandboxed and check the content of your site to see if you have breached any Google regs.

By: Edward Culligan

Edward Culligan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:51:05 +0000

Great to know this informstion. Now I just need to improve my website to get out of the sandbox

By: Carlyn Beccia

Carlyn Beccia — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:29:21 +0000

Thanks for the great info. I am just trying to figure out why I got the time out from google.

I am wondering if you can be “sandboxed” in google blog search but not a google web search? That is what happened to me. None of my posts are showing up in google blog search.

And I think you really hit on the reason why with your tip about not copying content. very important! I copied a book description word for word to help another author promote thier book. After that post….no more indexing.

oh I also use a lot of small text and I read that Google doesn’t like that either. true?

thanks again.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:03:23 +0000

All you can do is keep building links and add content. But be careful when you make a diagnose because being sandboxed means your rankings have for all the keywords you used to be competitive and rank well.

By: eff

eff — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:01:49 +0000

wanna ask sumthin’,,, i think my blog got sandboxes yesterday, my traffic decrease sharp. what can i do now?

Thanks

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