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2 1/2 Years And Still Sandboxed

Discussion in 'Google' started by jstroh, Aug 18, 2007.

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    Yes I did some evil stupid SEO in the first say 4 months I had the domain but after I was clean.

    Now 2 1/2 years later with PR5 tons of backlinks several from large places like engadget, kotaku, wikipedia, etc I rank for next to nothing.

    I get less than 1% of my traffic from Google.

    90% comes from Gamerankings, Metacritic for the game reviews we post.

    Any advice?

    oh domain: gamebrink.com

    Might as well mention it can't do any more harm.
     
    jstroh, Aug 18, 2007 IP
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  2. mickn

    mickn Peon

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    #2
    Links from Wikipedia don't affect your PR as they have a nofollow attribute.
    Your site is not banned from Google.
    I don't konw about the ranking, that might be not so easy to answer.
     
    mickn, Aug 18, 2007 IP
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    pyewacket Peon

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    #3
    I'm showing 173,000 pages indexed with 11,000 in the main index.

    When I did a site:www.gamebrink.com, I see that most of your pages are displaying the same description, "GameBrink1 (geymbringk) - noun 1. Where Japanese video games live on the internet. 2. Import video games encyclopedia. ...". The handful of pages I looked at had little or no content, with lots of links to other pages and lots of ads. I would work on adding content at least to your upper level pages and do something about those meta descriptions. Good luck to you!
     
    pyewacket, Aug 18, 2007 IP
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    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    nice site, you're doing good don't worry
     
    DomainMagnate, Aug 18, 2007 IP
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    #5
    What he said.
     
    NYCBORN, Aug 18, 2007 IP
  6. donttrustthisposter

    donttrustthisposter Peon

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    #6
    Yeah you aren't sandboxed, you're most likely supplementaled.

    Most of your pages meta description;
    ouch.
     
    donttrustthisposter, Aug 18, 2007 IP
  7. jstroh

    jstroh Peon

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    Yes the meta is lacking on upper pages but they're fine for game level pages like
    http://www.gamebrink.com/xbox-360/2650-BioShock-info.html

    Urls are rewritten with keywords.

    I have other sites that do just fine but this one google just hates.
     
    jstroh, Aug 18, 2007 IP
  8. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    hi mate,

    your site is not sandboxed.

    i have a small tip about the sandbox.

    if your site url is sitename.com, you must search google with "sitename" word.

    if you find your site on the first page with sitename search, you are not snadbox.

    i have done it for you.

    and your site is NOT sandbox.
     
    trichnosis, Aug 18, 2007 IP
  9. usasportstraining

    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    Cool tip! Thanks.
     
    usasportstraining, Aug 18, 2007 IP
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    James Dean Nash Peon

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    You are not banned in Google you just need to work on your title tags and content. Think of your titles as your words that you want people to find you. I wouldn't type in "Where Japanese Games Learn English" to find your home page but I might think of Playstation 3 video games or xbox games etc..just look at what your selling or offering and put it in content...Good, unique content and in your titles, headers etc.
     
    James Dean Nash, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    ablaye Well-Known Member

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    I don't think you are sandboxed. You have done a poor job at SEOing your site, that's why your rankings are so low.
     
    ablaye, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    #12
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I have to point this out to you.
    You have hundreds of links on your front page, and no actual text, which is one main issue, the other half of your problem is that your site is Its shite, content light and SEOverdosed.
    Besides google advert text, do you have any non link content on the front page?
    The entire think looks like a link farm.
     
    darksat, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    eli03 Well-Known Member

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    #13
    try to concentrate on your main keyword when promoting the site or when building a link but first you need to optimize your page.
     
    eli03, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    saadalgazzar Peon

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    #14
    nice work ... keep work
     
    saadalgazzar, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    Wow! 167,000 pages indexed are they all original content? Diverse Title Tags (with body). How about the other 1000 domains of yours how they doing? I didn't think they handed out mdn.net accounts to anyone other than premium high traffic guys. ( how do you join the club? )

    we have the same alexa so I will guestimate you get between 300 and 1000 uniques a day, am I right? I did the same thing you did at the exactly the same time maybe even, and google forgave me. But I think your looking for more traffic then you let on. In fact your alexa looks like your traffic is peaking right now even. Hmmm. Not sure what to suggest with that many pages indexed I would imagine their all uniqe content with over 200 words per page right?

    If not I maybe suggest starting a new domain and promoting them differently and getting where you are right now in under a year the way things are going it seems that might be just as easy but your links need more juice might I suggest some .edu, .gov and .mil juice that would kick it in the rear.
     
    TeachCrunch, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    need some text in the front page...upper half of the page

    and topic need to be change to the keyword that you are aiming at, and also add meta code
     
    ad1, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    #17
    Your on page SEO is horrible......stop blaming Google...
     
    oseymour, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    Directory_SEO Peon

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    the keywords you target is probably a competitive one, you get sandboxed for these terms. The other site you are competing probably is much more authoritative than your site
     
    Directory_SEO, Aug 20, 2007 IP
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    Google sees your site as a link farm. Content is the key
     
    russianzio, Aug 21, 2007 IP