I think my site is in the sandbox. My site was first crawled in the beginning of october. From the first crawl, none of my pages (except the home page) have ever been indexed. Is the sandbox keeping my site from getting indexed? Or am I not being indexed for other reasons? I know I dont have many back links but I am working on it every day. Also My site is a credit repair website. Does anyone know if credit repair is a subject that stays in sandbox longer than others? My credit repair Site Best Wishes To ALL David.
One More thing..... For some reason I don have any pages other than my home page indexed in yahoo, and I dont have anything indexed in msn.... What am I doing wrong? My site gets NO traffic from search engines. I mean Not even One click since I created it. Please Help ME. David
You were helped in the other thread you posted: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=191322
Now that I compair the 2 questions they are pretty much the same...for some reason in my head i thought I was asking a completly diff question.... Sorry
Did you search like Site:www.yourdomain.com in google? If there is some results, then means your site is indexed. Sandbox shall be happened after indexing. No index, then there is no sandbox. Try to get as many backlinks as possible, be patient and wait.
I see what you are saying.... Someone told me that it would take almost a year to get out of the sandbox for credit repair......
I think I am in the sandbox too. Only my index page of my website, www.knowledger.info is on google, the rest of my pages are not seen in google. This is iritating as all my content in my website cannot be searched for.
i think (just me, no science in it) that sandbox can vary from site to site: one of mine is fuly indexed, has backlinks, has original content and is optimized (not super optimized) for 5-6 keywords/phrases, but it doesen´t apear in the first 20 pages of Google. Let me add that the competition is nule, like 123.000 results, and for allinurl the competition is 11 results... so... what do you think?
Can I be blatant for a second? I guess I can, to be honest from the two threads you've posted and your site it seems like you're more concerned with being indexed and adsense than actual credit repair. The ads look like they have taken over your website and it just gives me the feel that you created your site more for advertisements than actually helping people repair credit. The general consensus is that if you build quality content and good links things will fall into place. I'm still a newbie but I can tell you from my experience with my eCommerce site that building links and quality content and/or products will get things moving. I've marketed my site for a month and a half, it took maybe 2 weeks to get indexed on google and I'm getting traffic for keywords that aren't even targeted on my website. I still have a long ways to go on the major keywords but again as I said, quality links, quality content and patience. Good Luck
I reckon that one of the determining factors of exiting the sandbox is the topic or category of your site. Something like credit repair smacks of spamminess. Start getting good links to your site...thats gonna help you no end.
I wrote an article about the sandbox here: http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/the-google-sandbox-effect-simplified/ You are right, different niches seem to have different delays.