Hi All, I have a blog http://onlinegadgetbox.blogspot.com/ (PR-3) Till yesterday i was getting avg 500+ visitors everyday from google on many keywords.. on first page of google. But now it has suddenly dropped today, for most of the keywords the rankings have been dipped badly (not even on first 5 pages of google search) Earlier all my blog post used to be on google search withing 30 mins of post. Is it a case of "Sandbox".. coz my site is still indexed by google. Please tell me guys what should i do about it. It took me 1yr to reach such level. Please help me and let me know how can i get out of "sandbox" Thanks
Dont worry, this can happen for different reasons. Google maintain its index in many data centers, it takes time to move around this huge amounts of data and you will have these cycles once in a while when you site is still indexed but cant be searched for a while. As long as you dont do something bad (google bad) you have nothing to worry about. Have a nice glass of wine and chill
It doesn't mean that you are sandboxed. Could also be because you are not building enough backlinks to your site to maintain it's popularity. You have to build backlinks every day regardless of your PR. keep posting on blogs or in do follow forums like here at DP. Also do some article submission
You might be experiencing the Google Dance.. Some of the data on your site fluctuates.. It takes two to three days to complete the updates.. Try to check it now!..
Thanks for the response ppl. @Ruby: Its been only a day since this has happened..I am checking it regularly. @lighltysalted: I have enough backlinks to my site..infact a SEO specialist told me to decrease the backlinks, its hampering you, i have 6000 inbound links to my site. Please explain more on the same guys
How to find out if site was banned by google may give you a few answer. Seems you had just google bounce tho.
Most probably you've gain those links in short time, or you've too much keywords in your pages. In my experience it happens when you did something like these.
Sandbox is nothing but when a site is newly launched then google observes it carefully as there are no illigal back links of that site. Whenever google is satisfied that the particular website does not do anything unusal for ranking or indexing then it will release it from sandbox. Usually it takes 3 to 6 months for new sites to be out of sand box. So dont worry your site may be in sandbox. If not then it may effect for few days due to data change in google data centers.
If you were having top rankings for a long time and in one day everything changed, wait for some time to see what happens.
Can anyone tell me.. If they have suffered from Google Sandbox or Google Dance recently?.. And any words for comfort?.. My site is being indexed regularly.. all my posts gets indexed within 20 minutes. But still SERP are not back. Its been 3 days. Infact My Mobile Review site was at PR-2 and got promoted to PR-3 today, But all SERP are gone. But i am anyways still having Image search results. Can anyone suggest me further
check the other post regarding PR updation: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=11772749#post11772749
If that is backlink then stop your link building and wait, it'll be fine soon. Mostly within a month. And if it's keyword, then try to reduce them. Be useful to the visitors not SE
Its been 5 days now.. No News?.. Can anyone tell me.. how can i contact Google.. though i have already sent mail for Re-Consideration, But i guess thats for Banned sites. My site is not banned,it has just lost all the rankings.
Just keep on building new backlinks and updating the content, and you will get your rankings back. There are other people who also suffer from this, so you are not alone.