I have a question. How did people know about the sandbox? I have site ...he is 1 year old and now he is N48 IN google ...when my site up to N1 ?
It's been suggested that you can avoid the sandbox by using a old 'trusted' domain. Google has become a domain name registrar but they're not actually registering domain names. Being a registrar means that they have access to all the other registrars API's. The thinking is that they want domain name info and history so they can track domain ownership and factor it into their search algorithm. Using a transfered URL then may not get you anywhere as they will reset it's score to zero.
Just keep getting links and adding fresh content. Track your rankings in the other SEs. In 9 months or so you will be able to start tracking Google.
I am just getting into adsense, so the sandbox is a thorn in my side! Oh well, if I do my work I should be very well off in a year or so...
the sand box can really bugger things up. What if some one makes a site... lets say for curing cancer...... but the antidote will only be available for the next 6 months....... Well thats just great, one of the most important sites in the world, giving away the cure for cancer...... but its in the sandbox for the next 6 months, so no one heres about it...... its so frustrating
Well that just simply wouldnt happen. Just think about sites like the million dollar home page. Im sure they didnt get hardly any search engine traffic but they still got tons of visitors. Getting traffic from search engines is only a small part of what you can get else where.
I'm going to take Web_Gazelles advice and avoid those candy bars in the sandbox... Like the post about developing a site during the sandbox time... More about developing a site and the sandbox. Say that you were going to create a site about "home loans" obviously, pretty competative term. Now lets say that you are going to sandboxed for 9 months... Would creating a simple, say 10 page site about home loans... and leaving it live for a year, get you out of the sandbox (IYO)... and then you'd have a unsandboxed site ready for your real launch... Does this kind of prelaunch make sence?
One way of getting around the sandbox - although not entirely satisfactory for many people - is with subdomains. If you have a site that is trusted by Google and add a subdomain linked to from your main domain, the content in the subdomain will perform very much better in Google's SERPS than the same content in a new site.
I don't know if I would go the subdomain route. I think the best option is just riding it out and looking at other ways and places to get traffic while riding it out.