Am I Sandboxed?

Hello all, I'm new to SEO and am tryin my best to get some positive results in Google for my company's website: www.dawsonmeetings.com for the keywords: Corporate Meeting Planning. The domain was registered back in 1998, although I recently put it on a new host with all new content. It has been indexed by Google since then, but I cannot get it rank at all in the DP keyword ranking tool. It appears to be sandboxed, although I thought that only applied to new domains? It does have some backlinks from the old days and a Page Rank of 4, which to me should be reasonably competitive (top 10) by my evaluation.

I studied pretty hard on optimization techniques, but I hope that I haven't taken things too far. If anyone would be willing to take a look at it and give an opinion I'd much appreciate it.

I did re-submit the site to Google which I later learned was not necessary. I hope that did not sandbox me. I did try the seomoz tool and did not get a definitive result.

 

Your are not sandboxed.

You just need a few more inbound links.

Try to work your way into directories, and submit your website, with keyword rich titles.

 

Nope. Not sandboxed: see proof

 

Nice. SO you figured a 6 years old website is sandboxed. And kinda rude actually

 

http://www.google.com/search?site=w...c2coff=1&q=www.dawsonmeetings.com&btnG=Search

why is the result url different?

 

Seems like you founf the issue. Either a 302 hijack or server problems.

Expertu, I was only joking with my sandbox: command.

 

hey i just found out you use the "sandbox" query to find out if a site is in the google sandbox. its something which wanted to know. great.

i used the site command earlier today and my site went up from 73 to 690 pages in the google cache and now its come back to 89. any idea why?

 

it was a joke

 

but my weights gone up from 93 (earlier today) to 813 now.

 

Oh boy, what have I done. Created world-wide confusion.

 

i guess its pretty easy to fool people when its owt to do with google and seo, its what everyone wants to know.

 

Ahahahah. I know you made a joke. Just saying it was a mean one

 

Dont worry jkid, but I think you are about ready to put your sites in your sig..

 

Oops tops30 isn't that the command to request the sandbox? LOL

 

LMAO that'd be unfortunate if I had discovered, by accident of course, the 'add my site to the sandbox' command. That'd be a goldmine if I knew that. Competitors will be eating their hair from despair. Man, that'd be awesome.

*Runs off to code a script that tries all relevant commands...*

 

Thanks for the advice guys. I was not aware of the url www.dawsonmeetings.com coming back with the wrong resulting domain www.usarrangers.com in google. We actually own both domains, but the www.usarrangers.com site is being hosted/managed by another company and I am doing www.dawsonmeetings.com myself as a replacement. It includes information about the Company U.S.Arrangers (one of our divisions) within the new site. I plan to eventually do away with the content currently listed at www.usarrangers.com.

There was a time previously when www.dawsonmeeetings.com pointed to the www.usarrangers.com website. About a 2 months ago we changed the dns to point to a new location for www.dawsonmeetings.com. Google has obviously indexed the new website, but why is it still showing www.usarrangers.com as the resulting url on the search for www.dawsonmeetings.com? I don't know if there are any redirects but perhaps there is something in place at the usarrangers.com host that is causing this?

I am going to check with them to see if they have a 302 redirect in place. So if I have them remove it it should fix it the next time Google crawls?

Thanks again - especially for the sandbox: command. Ultra useful!

You probably didn't know about this one though:
removefromsandbox:url /addtotop5 /FreeSponsorResults180days

or this one is even better:
googlesearchresults:url /redirectall
(directs all Google Search Results worldwide to redirect to your site - warning: causes very heavy server load - be prepared if you use this one)

I found that one on hillbillyhackers.net

I figured that a 6 year old domain shouldn't be subject to sandboxing, but I wondered if resubmission with all new content at a new IP might still get you there.

 

You were close Tops. This is a command I didn't think I would share... but I've wanted to contribute more lately. So here is the screenshot of the command... I used it on a site from your sig. Hope you don't mind...

Edit: Just a side note, I didn't make use of the "Erase Google cache of this site"

 

Very nice

Now please do the 'up-in-the-top-5' command please Bazkaz!

 

Yeah... that's the tricky one. Haven't nailed down what that command actually is yet... but I think I'm getting closer.

Glad you liked it though.