I have my site online for 4 months now. I know that all new sites are sandboxed(?), but how long will this last. The bots are crawling my site like there's no tomorrow, but i get almost no traffic from google. Almost all the traffic comes from yahoo. When will google start sending traffic ?
Same question. My site is online since 2 months and traffic is coming frm MSN and Yahoo. What abt google????
there's no1 who can tell u when u gonna move out from sandbox, all u can do is keep checking and praying. PS: i never believed in sandbox until my site got it one
On the other hand my then 2 months old blog got a PR1 on the last update and majority of my traffic comes from Google.
My site got out of the sandbox after 4 months. But I still get some google traffic before then (for non-competitive keywords)
look u must stay in sanbox some times 1- dont change your links 2- dont change your forum folder 3-get more back links when your site out of sandbox u will notice heavey traffic from google
I'll ask the same question as on a related sandbox thread. How do you know when a site is "in the sandbox" - what is reliable test for this? The impression I get from many people is that if a page ranks "lower than it ought to" they assume it's in the sandbox - this is very subjective! Is there actually a reliable, objective test? Howard
You must build your TrustRank first. The best way to do this is through incoming links and quality, ever-changing content. The sooner you can accelerate these activities, the sooner you will be out of the "sandbox".
Your guess is good as ours. Its impossible to say, though the general consensus is about 9-12 months for quite a competitive keyword.
A definite answer would be impossible otherwise everybody would choose to wait instead of working towards getting out of it. Do continue doing your work, and somewhere down the line, your work will pay off.
The thing you must understand is that sandbox is a combination of filters that filters out sites with less trust. Essentially, sites that are new do not have trust so they are not able to rank for some time. Depending how you go on building you link campaign, you could gain the trust over the time. However, another factor to look at is the keyword you are targetting. If you are targetting very competitive keyword, then you need to have lots of trust to rank high enough otherwise you would not rank. It is just this simple factors you need to consider. If your site does not gain trust, perhaps it will never rank. So start working and do the link building campaign, rather than waiting. You will notice as you gain trust, you will first start getting the long trail traffic (ranking for some low competitive keywords). When you start seeing some traffic for other keywords coming in, you should understand that your site has started to gain some trust and keep on link building.. Eventually you will get there, but you have to work for it, not just wait.
Do u think there is Really a sand Box? If your site is not showing reasults in google SERP then yes your site may be penalized. Work on ur content, refresh them again, work on quality links(From edu or gov sites), try to make ur site as a trusted site. Then i think there is no problem u will be on top. best of luck Day Kevi
Exactly, you can bypass it in know time by doing just that. If you only build lots of crap links, forum sig links, poor quality directories etc from sites that have no trust themselves your going to wait a long time.
Whatever I have learnt about sandbox from my own experiences, you're usually out of sandbox if : 1. you get PR updated (gain for new domains). 2. The PR values are cached across all google datacenters. 3. Have enough backlinks.
The thing to do I think is just keep updating and get back links... this will certainly help to move out of the sandbox quickly.