One thing im not good at and that i will never be good at is seo.... I have a 2006 domain that has always been active and updated, but for some reason that i cant figure out, the website got sandboxed, all its page 1 results went back to page 4 - 5 - 6 and from 50,000+ google searches a day its down to less than 3,000. The website is still getting 30,000 daily uniques via plug traffic trades and inbounding links. This website is on a dedicated server with a good part of my network and at this point ill get to the question: If i change IP of this website will it help to get back to where i was and not boxed in by google? Right now im on a server ip: 196.xxx.xxx and i would be moving it to a 87.xxx.xxx as you can see they are way different. The reason im asking this is because i have over 250 ABC hardlink trades and they are all on the same dedicated server IP So i think google has figured this out and screwed me for it, but moving the main domain to another IP will show google that there is no connection with the other websites.... right? Thanks for your time
First of all, the sand box refers to new websites whose rankings automatically go down after a short boost in rankings. When this happens to an older websites it is just some type of penalty. There is a good chance that you are either linking to some bad websites or you did not vary your link anchor text enough. Changing your IP likely won't help, but it may be worth a try. Basically if you get a penalty you have little choice but to try to remove anything spammy you have done with your website or its links.
It won't help at all. You need to change something on your content, website or even links to get out if it is sandbox. Wait some weeks, months and see it .
No sir thats wrong! His abc link trades are fed from the same server and the same ip, google has a Korean team that understood the trick and slammed a lot of websites (adult oriented) 7 months back, my website was also pushed back to page 7 on all keywords. If this ban in manual your screwed, but like in 90% of the times its done via serp, then by changing IP you wont be on the bots black list any longer, its a program and not a brain, it will free you in a short time. I did this my self 3 months back, i now have recovered 80% of my google rankings and i hope to get the other 20% back also.
If you are desperate, try an overhaul of your entire intersite linking structure and removal of any duplicate content. Changing your IP alone won't help - you will only be insulting the Google engineers' intelligence.