SEO Friends, I'm not entirely sure about the blog that exposed "Sandbox" post-panda google can get back to normal. Are there any among you who have managed to lift it back to normal? if so, what methods are used?
Sandbox and Panda are two different things. Sand boxed site get back to normal gradually. Only a few Panda hit sites able to recover like labnol.org and daniweb forum etc..
Would you mind explain me in short? This is from what I know - Sandbox is when our site buried deep in the unknown ranking of SE - Panda victim, the index page gone Is the different simply like that?
It is true that Sandbox and Panda are different. However both algorithms penalize websites. There is an official statement that website can get recovered from Panda algorithm penalty. It is also possible to get lost rankings from Sandbox. * For Panda penalty, just put a lot quality content and fix the old content * For Sandbox, on-page optimization, layout change and a lot new quality links (.gov and .edu links can help).
Sandbox algorithm by Google tests whether a web venture is a serious effort or a spam act.Basically what happens is when one starts a website and starts posting his/her SERP gets better.Your keywords may find position in top 10 due to Google's effort to bring in fresh content to its visitors. But after some time your rankings begin to fall and the original top 10 website's keywords take back the position.At that time you need a quality link building and stay in competition by posting as usual.The spammers can not devote that much time and their patience run out so they stop. Your posting of regular fresh original content during a sandbox ultimately pulls you back to the top 10 .Although sandbox like phenomenon is never acknowledged by Google but several SEO's believe it exists. Panda victim Panda algorithm tests your content quality.The duplicate , incorrect grammar and ripped content website are punished.A good quality content with back links from social bookmarks and facebook perform better.The phenomenon is still being studied by SEO's coz as many as 500 tweaks (assumed) exists in this algorithm and hit the web in mid Feb 2011. Popular Panda Symptoms 1.Your Traffic (mostly) from US decreases by 50% or so...That happened after Feb 28 2.The Profitable Keywords vanish from top 10 rankings... In both cases one thing is common -