Hi, my new blog www.secretstosuccess-review.com is only about 2 and a half weeks old, and it has been indexed by google. However, even when i type "secrets to success" into google (the main keyword i want it to rank for) it appears on the 20th or so page. Has it been sandboxed, or simply do i need to give it more time? Thanks for the help.
1. Sandbox is a myth 2. Your website ranking dropped for your target keyword 3. Your web pages are getting indexed, this means you need to get more backlinks to raise your SERP rankings 4. Optimize your on page content for target keyword 5. Look out for any duplicate content snippets
This is known as Google Dance Do Following Social Bookmark 5-10 per day Directory Submission 50-100 per day After 1 month Do All Linkbuilding Steps at once
i am also facing this type of problem, just doing High PR website submission with the help google crawling your site again and again and finally got back your ranking in google
That is not your site being sand boxed, that is just the effect of your site being so new and that being a fairly competitive term. Usually you will notice a sand boxing when your site gradually increases in ranking then all of a sudden it drops like a stone.
Before building any type of links. Make sure that you have a quality BASE links. you can write some aricles and submit those to ezinearticles, squidoo, goarticles and etc. and let Google indexed them and after few days. Continue building backlinks to your site and also the links on these TRUSTED sites..