If I increase my PR will it get my site out of the sandbox? I've built over 100 backlinks so far but still have PR0 - I hope it will rise soon tho
There is a correlation to thrust if you can get a thrusted high pr backlink it may help you (like DMOZ)etc
How did you get those back links? If the links are gained in unlikely manner, you may remain in sandbox for a longer time.
IDK I have a very popular domain name. Lot's of people are linking to it but it's got the worst Google rankings ever. 95% of my traffic is referring sites. I'm trying to change that to get some Google traffic too.
in my experience, google PR doesn't have any effect on the sandbox, it seems primarily related to the age of the domain name and content.
One of my blogs is a few months old is a PR3/indexed/backlinks and I do not show up in the Serps. When I was a PR0 I had a bunch of organic traffic from Google, so my experience is PR has nothing to do with it.
My domain is almost 4yrs old. Do you think that it's sandboxed because it was a for sale domain all that time until recently?
That would be a good assumption. There is no reason why Google would treat a dead domain any different than a new domain.
But my site have in sandbox nearly 8 months, it still in. not a popular keywords, only some product's name, most of search results are less than 20K.
congratulations ... By the way I have a pr4 dmoz listed and sandboxed site So pr has not got much effect on sandbox.
I don't think the sandbox is alleviated by Pagerank, but by quality, authoritative and (most importantly) aged links. Links must age like a fine wine before Google gives full PR credit for them. Additionally, I believe (from experience) that Google rewards organic linkage, i.e. linkage that is evenly distributed to all pages of a website, as well as consistent gains in links over time. The key is to avoid imbalance, or gaining too many links too quickly (as it looks contrived) and too many links to too few pages. To summarize, I believe that avoiding the sandbox requires a linkage process that looks natural, versus "seo'd".