Thanks for this, there is so much speculation about the sandbox on the net. It hard to get concrete answers. So I'm hoping after I brave the sandbox days my search engine traffic should get a nice boost. A couple days ago I created a blog post on the CherryPal computer. When I searched Google for CherryPal I barely got a page of results. Then after my post my page ranked 2 for "Cherrypal" right behind Cherrypal.com! The next two days my traffic more than tripled. But now everyone has caught up and my site isn't seen for pages for the same term. Now my traffic is back to normal
How exactly could we find out if my site is in the sandbox, allinanchor was mentioned but how do we use it ? Thanks
Nice detailed FAQ about the sandbox there is a lot of hearsay regarding this all over the web. I have came across forums claiming you can quit the sandbox, but its not worth the risk. Just stick it out, build links, add content and atleast when you do come out your site will be ranking high.
Of course, the first thing I did after reading this article was go and see if "http://www.doodypants.com/" was real. haha. (it's not)
A way I beleive you can tell if your in the google sandbox for a phrase is if you list well in Yahoo but only for very uncompetitive phrases for Google.
Well, I have launched 6 websites and none of them ever got trapped in your sandbox. So no I do not believe it exists. On another point we sit at the #4 position for a keyword search that has 156 million results. We wrote the page and within 6 weeks it was #4 so no I do not believe in the sandbox.
Thanks. That's why my blog is not appearing on the search result in terms of keywords. I hope that Google will let me out of the sandbox
Your bravado is not helpful here. It obviously exists based on my own experience and that of others. Probably you got lucky and are using the same techniques again and again, it does not make you the best SEO in the world. On the other hand, if you were to say "I avoided the sandbox and here's how I did it", I'd be interested. But because you think the sandbox doesn't even exist then I question your SEO skills.
I feel the more competitive your niche is, the more you have to struggle to get out of the google sandbox. But how far people are successful by adopting the strategy of using linkbaiting as a means to overcome the sand box?
I think my site was sandboxed once i think this may help me prevent it get into there again. thanks for the info though.
This post was helpful, but the allinanchor advice was a little confusing to me. I rank high #5 for allinanchor: my keyword. I can't even find my keyword with a normal search. Is that the sandbox? Thanks