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seo-ireland
Apr 27th 2005, 5:35 am
What has been the longest stay in the Sandbox that you guys had to endure? I have two sites that still stuck in it after 7 arduous months.
just-4-teens
Apr 27th 2005, 5:41 am
mine been in sandbox since end of january so far and im still counting the days
SERPalert
Apr 27th 2005, 5:56 am
What has been the longest stay in the Sandbox that you guys had to endure? I have two sites that still stuck in it after 7 arduous months.

8 months, could it be something more than sandbox? I rank high for all in anchor, some small crappy terms are fine, anything big is nowhere...
seo-ireland
Apr 27th 2005, 5:59 am
I did a lot of link building at the start of the campaign so I reckon it pushed me further in.
hurricane_sh
Apr 27th 2005, 6:15 am
My site has been in it for 8 months, and I still can't see a little hope to get it out. Actually I don't think it's sandbox, must be something about the site that Google hates, and it will stay at 4xx no matter how many links I build.
Pen Tongue
Apr 27th 2005, 6:47 am
a year to the day.
flyguy
Apr 27th 2005, 6:52 am
4 months.
Maybe today will be the day.
seo-ireland
Apr 27th 2005, 7:11 am
a year to the day.

OMG :eek:

Methinks it is getting exponentially longer (sort of) the further it gets from its initial implementation. It seems like it anywho.
longcall911
Apr 27th 2005, 7:44 am
8.5 months... sandbox plus I suspect 'too many too quick' filter
teamshop
Apr 27th 2005, 9:07 am
I'll let you know when and if it ever gets out :) . 8 months and counting on one site at the moment. My oldest site took 10 months.
mnemtsas
Apr 27th 2005, 4:00 pm
Well I've only ever had one site in the sandbox, and that's till in it 6 months after the site was first posted. No 1 on MSN/Yahoo too, stupid Google :D
Jim bob 9 pants
Apr 27th 2005, 4:07 pm
8 months for me and still waiting to get out! or my SEO is shite!!!
Netizen
Apr 27th 2005, 5:38 pm
10 months and counting. Only ranking on obscure KWs. I have some #1 slot in the allins, but nowhere at all in the SERPs.

Doing great in MSN and was great in Y until last week.
stephenmunday
Apr 27th 2005, 8:11 pm
Too long. Show me the free traffic, Google!

Just kidding. It has been 10 months since G first found my site, but any traffic I get from them would be free so I can't really demand anything.

And fortunately I have some nice links that convert way better than my SERP traffic.
MattUK
Apr 28th 2005, 1:33 am
It seems that 8-9 months is the norm at the moment. I also have a site started back in August that isn't showing anywhere on Google yet despite being totally cached and having PR. It's ranked in the top 5 for about 8-10 keyword terms in both MSN and Yahoo so I'm expecting to pull some pretty good rankings once it escapes.
Nintendo
Apr 28th 2005, 2:10 am
One of my sites was sandboxed for about 11 months, geting a few hundred pageviews a day. Now with it finally out of the sandbox it get's about 4,500 pageviews a day.
smindsrt
Apr 28th 2005, 2:27 am
One of my sites took 8 months while another only took 6 months.
nddb
Apr 28th 2005, 11:23 am
Not clear on the definition of the sandbox, but google has 143 of my pages indexed. MSN has around 10k, peaked at 19k. Yahoo has about 1500, but I saw it peak for a day at 9000. Google doesn't even crawl me... maybe a handful of pages every week. I REALLY wish they would give me a good thorough crawl so I could get up to an MSN level index.

Google got stuck on a phpbb SID and crawled the forum index 6000 times. Since then... it barely crawls me. Is it possible it nailed me for duplicate content and is now penalizing me? :(
bigcrags
Nov 8th 2005, 7:51 am
It seems there is a lot to be said for buying an old site and bypassing the sandbox altogether.
I've got 3 sites sandboxed at the moment, 8 months for the longest, although I had a client site last year that stayed there for 13 months. I think it was because she went at the link building process with a purpose. It meant she was penalised at first, but once those links matured and she came out of the sandbox she started doing very well from Google.
tork
Nov 8th 2005, 8:13 am
11 months after 1st crawl.
J.P
Nov 14th 2005, 4:43 pm
still in for a main site and this month is the 12th :(

I have another that came out after 5 months :)
mdvaldosta
Nov 14th 2005, 5:25 pm
I've been in now for 8 months on my oldest promoted site. All of mine are in the box except for my personal home page site :/

Im actually starting to get hits from Google now, about 1/3 that of MSN... Yahoo isn't sending anybody though :/
andy_boyd
Nov 16th 2005, 3:27 pm
I have a site that has been sandboxed for 1 year and 7 months ... the site is top 10 in Yahoo and MSN. How annoying is that!
Wouter
Nov 17th 2005, 8:39 am
10 months is my highest. Right now I'm researching for a cure, I'm in the <180 since the 4th of November with a new site
saintdw
Nov 21st 2005, 12:49 pm
My site is in sandbox for 11 months now. :o