Have any of you ever avoided the sandbox?

I have never seen a penalty, call me lucky...

 

There's no "cure all" answer to this dilemma.

A client of mine was able to either shorten their time in the sandbox or avoid it completely one time. This was because they were receiving a TON of inbound links, many from reputable and .edu sites.

I believe the more important a site linking to you, the more Google trusts that you're a legitimate site and the shorter amount of time you'll spend in the sandbox.

-Brian Renner
entrepreneur7

 

There's solid evidence that inbound links do not help you out from a sandbox penalty.

.edu, .gov...etc sites are seen as very high quality sites by google since they usually contain a lot of original content....it's probably not the links that saved your client but the "nature" of the site. Google is seeing your client's site as a high quality informational site. Probably it has original text materials in it too. But hey, i don't know many people that will get a link back from an authority .edu or .gov site

The fact is, Informational sites are not heavily sandboxed. The most heavy penalty is experienced by sites that are commercial in nature, in an industry that is competitive.

 

What about new subdomains on old domains? Will those avoid the sandbox?

 

An old domain has most probably already been in and out of the sandbox.

If the domain has never been used, if that's what you mean, a subdomain can help it out after the sandbox applies to the domain.

 

The idea scenario is old indexed domains that already have old quality backlinks to it from different domains.

Get as close to this as you can.

For those that believe its impossible to escape the sandbox, I disagree.
Live8 disproved the impossible sandbox theory.

If you expect to rank top 10 for 'mortgage' in Google within a few weeks then that is not you being in a sandbox, its being unrealistic. Any algo that let you fly to the top for a term that competitive would be broken.

Choose your battles