I recently just finished a new site. The domain was registered fresh in January. In one day, I gained several links below PR5, few PR5 links, a PR7 link, a PR8 link, and a PR10 link; all dofollow. All but the PR7 is pointed to the index. The PR7 is going to a sub-page. All anchors are different. (I'm not here to talk about how/where/why/when...or any questions about the links themselves, so please don't ask.) Obviously I'll find out sooner or later myself, I'm just curious if anyone knows, or has any thoughts on what I can expect to see happen with this site. My concern is the PR8 and PR10, while they are obviously extremely beneficial, is it too much too soon? I figure it's either going to be sandbox bound, or just help greatly with positioning in the SERPs straight out of the gate, but which one it will be... I have no idea.
There is no such thing as a sandbox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is an aging delay.......Google is business oriented and knows it takes years to build a successful business. As such they apply a filter to prevent new sites from popping to the top of the SERPs and then turning into a spam monster. As for your link building I'd love to see where you got a PR 10 link from.....since only 1 or 2 sites are a PR 10, it would be doubtful that is the PR of the link you acquired. And yes anything unnatural such as extremely high PR links vs few very low PR links can be easily detected..... Search engines are databases which work based on historical and empirical data sets. Google looks for spikes and aberrations to determine what sites are spamming or trying to manipulate the SERPS. Hope it helps!
Aging delay, sandbox... They are both just words describing a throttling effect on new sites. So you feel regardless of the authority of these sites, Google will see this as too much for a new guy and will end up throttling ranking for at least some time? This is what I feel is going to happen as well. Like I said, this isn't a thread to discuss the actual links. But yes, it is a valid PR10, has been for some time, with 3 external links; one being mine.
Well the sandbox was an Adwords tool to nit pick. The issue there was people thought it was something that happened because they misbehaved. Yes I think no matter how authoritative the site appears to be, it will still need traffic and healthy time on page to become an authority. Simply publishing a site does not reflect authority status...... There are always exceptions to the rule of course but for the most part unless the site offered something earth shattering such as a cure for stupidity or cancer its going to take a few months for results to gain traction.
What I would say is that there is no need to worry about anything related to link building. If it were hypothetically true, anybody can buy high PR or low PR spam links for their competitors websites and take them out of the rankings.
No you can't and here is why Search engines are databases which work based on historical and empirical data sets. Google looks for spikes and aberrations to determine what sites are spamming or trying to manipulate the SERPS. So if a site has been online for any period of time Google applies a baseline and uses the sites baseline to monitor the sites behavior in the future. If a site never built more than say 50 to 100 links a month for 6 months that would be the baseline. A competitor could buy 1000 crappy links to try to hurt the site but due to the fact that the historical data would show this as a huge spike, it would generate a report, and flag for human review, at which time the 1000 links suddenly acquired would likely be devalued, and not harm the site. That is how an algorithm works to detect fraud and deceitful practices.