I'm curious, its something hard to measure. How long do new sites tend to remain in their Google sandbox? I believe its anywhere between 3 and 12 months. Any idea?
I disagree. For highly competitive markets it can take anywhere up to 12 months to be released from the sandbox.
Wow, that's a hell of time..But still if I build , say 500 very high quality content pages, and get very high quality backlinks from .edu and .gov, is this still the case?
Quote: "I disagree. For highly competitive markets it can take anywhere up to 12 months to be released from the sandbox." I find that this is true. My (highly competitive subject) site is STILL in the sandbox, after 12 months and 4 days. I have developed a sandbox testing technique which uses some "non-money" keywords on the page to check for page SERPs - all the pages are indexed. But when I search for the "money-terms", I am nowhere to be found. This is slowly changing. The pages with terms (cities) having the lowest search traffic (Overture measured) have been released first. About 7 out of 43 pages have been "released" (can be found using the money-words). The SAME is true with Yahoo - I am still sandboxed for the highest-volume, highest-priced keywords. My backlinks are very sparce, so getting more would probably help a lot, but I don't really know. Sand box, aging delay . . . call it what you will . . . it still exists, big time. No soup for you, newcomer! Maybe later. Old is gold. New is highly suspect. One way to limit rampant webpage proliferation.
Ive read that it depends on how fast you collect quality links - some sites may not even be sandboxed as google doesn't want to miss out the next hot trend ie. facebook, youtube, myspace