4 months and still waiting

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Moneyfolk, Jan 7, 2006.

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    I have been in the sandbox for four months and I'm still waiting. I feel like Google hates me. What is the longest that you stayed in the sandbox?
     
    Moneyfolk, Jan 7, 2006 IP
  2. Cristian Mezei

    Cristian Mezei Notable Member

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    This is a thread for the General Chat category, more likely. :)

    What is your website ? And how do you know you are in the sandbox ?
     
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  3. Moneyfolk

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    Sorry - I misplaced it. It's the first one in my sig. I get traffic from MSN and Yahoo but nothing from google at all. When i use the google monitor tool - i never place even 300 for any of my keywords and I know I would place better for some of the content on my website.
     
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    How do you think I feel? 9k pages in G and I can't even rank for the easiest of terms. 8 months and counting.
     
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  5. kneukm03

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    Honestly, it's kind of a spammy site. You might be being hit by some other filter. The only page I saw on there that really had much useful information was the "questions and answers" one - the others are all really terse, couple of sentence paragraphs that are mainly generic and frankly kind of meaningless in some places. I would try reworking the site to make more of the pages like the q & a one. If you think about it, the googlebots that rank your site are just computers - they can't see your graphics, the only thing they can really make a judgment about regarding your site is the text. If it's only a paragraph on each page or if it's a sentence and a big chart, it's much more likely to be seen as spam or duplicate content or whatever. Then go read some of mjewel's posts in this forum on his experience with the sandbox. Something definitely seems to happen at the 3 month mark, and if you're past that then it could well be some other kind of filter applied to the sites.
     
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    I don't think my website is spammy at all. I have several content pages that are not in the main menu. They are in the sub-navigation. There are in-depth content on how to read your credit report from each of the major credit bureaus, how to buy a home with bad credit, etc. I have about 175 pages in all and only about 10 of them are in the main menu.

    I rank pretty well for MSN and Yahoo on various keywords but I know that alot of people get most of their traffic from google.

    I guess I will keep working on link exchanges. Any other suggestions from Dpers?
     
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    Why do you think you are sandboxed?

    Searched in google.com for links:yourwebsite

    Results 1 - 10 of about 40 linking to http : // www . poorcreditgenie . com.

    Sorry for the format of the link but I haven't enough posts to post links ;)
     
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    sandboxed and indexed are two completely different things.
     
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    can you explain that jnm?
     
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    Google indexes most sites but if your site is not returned in the SERPS for certain keywords, you're more than likely sandboxed ...
     
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    ... or more than likely, not promoted enough :)
     
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  12. kneukm03

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    Blade:

    Indexing is when your pages show up in Google's results. You can check this using the site:URL command. This will happen regardless of whether or not a site is subject to the sandbox effect, and any site can get indexed unless it has been penalized somehow.

    The sandbox effect only affects where those indexed pages RANK. So any new site can get a page listed in google - but that page will not be ranked for certain keyword phrases until some unknown thing happens that "releases" the site from the sandbox. The general consensus is that it is a matter of time. The experience people have with new sites is that they can rank for uncommon, multiple-word phrases or for "noncommercial" keywords, but they cannot get ranked higher than just above the supplemental results with a new site until some time has passed.
     
    kneukm03, Jan 13, 2006 IP