Hello I had a site a while ago which was a tutorials search engine, in 2002 I changed it to a training company, and a few weeks ago I changed it again to a tutorials search engine, the site is findtutorials.com The question is: was the site sandboxed? right now it ranks first only for 'find tutorials' What about all other keywords? How soon can I expect it to gain ranking again? it has thousands of incoming links from educational and gov web sites.
i think you problem is not related sandbox. as i know sandbox has started 2003 or 2004. you has lost your serp but this is not related sandbox. i have a small tip to check your site is sandboxed or not. search "findtutorials" word on google. if you find your site on 1th page , your site in not sandbox
When you search for : 'Find Tutorials' it still appears. So if it's sandbox I should be out from it in a month or so right?
yes,you site in sandbox,did you buy links recently? if you didnot just waite,because you added many competitive keywords eg http:// www. findtutorials. com/tutorials/drugs and all of you content has been changed ,IMO,you lost the trust of google.
I believe you should have traffic to justify links. So getsome traffic to your site from google adwords, YPN adcenter etc... you site will be back on to the previous position
Traffic to justify the links?? huh? you're telling methat if I'll buy traffic my ranking will improve? that just doesn't make any sense.. or does it? guys?
I have seen this effect. I have seen sites with no link standing very high on Google just on the basis of hit's they receive. Do you know why Google offer services like analytic. This is just to analyze your site and based on this they do ranking as well. They know about your site how much time users spend on that etc
It seems that Google does not recognise a domain name until it is submitted with a site on it. It is regsiter a domain name, fast forward time for 8 years this does not help. It need site submission and least a few pages with at least a few links to age sucessfully