Hello, I've launched my new site on 5th october and it has been my fatest growing site ever since I had a 4,000 userbase from my older website, and I emailed them to invite them on my new site. In two weeks there have been over 400 user registrations, 700+ new pages created, many backlinks (because of a referral system) I tried to optimize the site for SEO regarding titles, meta tags, and inside body text for my main keywords (best/review/top) I registered the site on Google, Yahoo and Bing webmaster tools, with the corresponding sitemap. Despite this, Google doesn't send visitors, or really a low amount, like 10 per day or so. Google indexes pages but simply doesn't display them for relevant searches. Yahoo and Bing I don't mention them because in my experience they don't bring many visitors, and they only start sending some after some time and for an unknown reason on sites who have been online already for a long time, when I don't expect them to send any. But do you have an idea on what to do in order to get out of the sandbox of Google, is there nothing to do except waiting? My site is http://www.best-reviewer.com if you think that there is something related to it. But perhaps it's just a fact of life for any new site?
At this point in time, exactly one month after launch, I'm happy to say that visits from Google are not limited to 10 per day like before, but it is a few hundreds a day. I still think the site site is in Google sandbox because there are now well over 1,000 content pages created and many backlinks. So it should at least receive one visit per content page per day, no? But I think in november it will only get better and better. Still I'm curious about technics you might have to get out of Google Sandbox faster, technics that you'd like to share with everyone, but it doesn't look like it's happening, judging from the number of answers this thread got so far...
It takes time for Google to place your site correctly into the index. My opinion of the sandbox is that Google is unsure where to put your site in the index so it waits until a correct match or placement is found then it adds the site to the search engine. < My opinion only. If it’s a new site you should wait at least 2 -3 month and analysi your traffic. Also if you have moved from an old site to the new site – did you use a 301 permanent redirection to your new site? This also helps and tells Google that your site has moved to new link.
better to wait? Ah, nice advice, I think I'll do that then. The site is now 2 and a half month old, it gets about 2,000 unique visitors per day from Google. The rest is from my own linking. 2,000 may sounds ok, but with the amount of content there is, it could be much higher, I believe Google is still capping the traffic, the site being too new still. It was a fresh start and not a move from another domain, so there was no 301 redirect to do.
You all are seems good in SEO so can anyone tell me that a site which is 8 yrs old getting 4 to 5k traffic per day... that site is really in sand box or not? and why isn't the SEO is working for the site?
I think wait will better for it and if you are warred about it, you have need to contact to Google head office and their employees. They can help you to get it out.