Hi I think my website has been sandboxed, for which reason i dont know why. www.johnnysinajiffy.com all the keywords i was showing for have disaparead from the SERPS can anyone help? what do I do to find out? and get out?
No, it has not been banned or sandboxed by google. Google is changing SERPs and your site might have been hit. It happen to me but after a few weeks things went back to normal.
Exactly, and i agree because it happened to me as well, they Surely are changing or implementing new stuff in their algorithm. Also could be the reason that you have very less amount of content showing on the home page. [Just a Guess]
hi thanks for your comments, how can you tell I have not been sandboxed or banned? why would I be banned for my products when I am a condom website selling condoms, all my keywords are related to the products I sell??? for instance i was page 1 for condoms, durex condoms, cheap condoms, durex, all these have disapared
thanks so the fact my domain name is still showing up means I am not sandboxed? if you are sandboxed, does your website not show at all?
www.johnnysinajiffy.com/catalog/ if you put that link into google though its not showing its showing only www.johnnysinajiffy.com
Personally, I think the idea of a sandbox is a bit of a Webmaster creation. Even if it does exist, a site only maintains this status for a short period of time. So I wouldn't really worry about it. SERPs is another story all together and a very important one at that. If your site ranks well for good keywords then you get more visitors, meaning more sales in your case. To do this I would advise you to keep away from very popular keywords, at least in the beginning. You can always try as a long term marketing strategy ,but make sure that other good "secondary" keywords or phrases are also targeted. Another thing to remember is that Google is very dangerous. Don't rely solemnly on their traffic like I did. Because one day you're at the top and the next you can't even make enough money to pay for a nice warm cup of coffee.
thanks for your reply, so do you think my website has just had drop in SERPS? and it should even itself back out? for instance i was 3rd last night for cheap condoms, under the www.johnnysinajiffy.com link, and now I am no where, I was 8th for condoms, and now no where can they just ban www.johnnysinajiffy.com/catalog/ part of the domain name,or if i was banned/sandboxed would none of my website be showing up in google?
I think things will settle in a few days or maybe weeks. It took nearly a month on my side. You can use google's webmaster tools to get some interesting information on your site's SERPs.
thanks for your help, i have got webmaster tools what a nightmare, sales where going really great, the website has been running for 5years, so isnt just a new website, we havent done anything different lately than we normally have in the last 5 years, so strange why its just me thats disapared but just to confirm i have defenetly not been banned or sandboxed? its just a matter of my SERPS dropped?
no sandbox nothing. just wait some days. one of my site had this similar problem and it lasted for 14 days. i hope your site will get back to normal soon. take care.
It might happen that your site is sandboxed,or else after google updation so many of dite lost their SER, PR, as well as Rankings. It will be back on the position where it was just keep your SEO efforts on.
Your site has just been suffering from Google's SERP update. You can do some advertising or marketing in the meanwhile to keep sales up if you want, but from what I've been reading on this forum and from my own experience, I wouldn't worry about it.
have you tried doing intitle: inanchor: searches for your keywords ? If your site still ranks high doing that, it's almost certainly sandboxed.
hi thanks everyone for your response the question i have though, why i am so confused If you are SANDBOXED, does that mean none of your links on your website for any keywords are shown? for instance durex condoms, yesterday i was showing as 3rd, today I am no where to be seen however cheap durex condoms, I am number 1 and 2 today, under the same domain name If i was sandboxed surely no keywords or no URLS would come up? Secondly why can i got from showing so high to no where over night?
If there is a problem with your backlinks, too many to quick or from spammy sources, then you can have a keyword penalty. That usually happens on competitive keywords, which condoms would fall under. So you could rank well for durex performa condoms or variations of the word condoms but no where for the main keyword. Usually a problem when you don't vary your anchor text enough and with new sites.