Well i am fighting for few key words for my site, its cheats related and keywords i am fighting for are "game cheats" Video game cheat codes" "game cheat codes" and few other i know its very hard to get on first page for these terms. For term game cheats when i do allinanchor: game cheats i am on 5th page but when i search for term game cheats in google search i am no where atleast not in first 20 pages rest of the terms i rank either on first page or 2nd page in allinanchor but again no where in google search for these terms, now let me know if site is still sandboxed or what. Just to inform you that most of my traffic comes from google which is about 600-800 uniques a day rest is from other search engines, linked sites and direct. Site is almost 8 months old. Url is gamecheats dot eu
This is domain was created this year so I think it will be very difficult to get ranked for those competitive phrases even though your allinanchor is on the 5th page or even higher. You have a ton of links but I think you will need to focus on quality links especially for a newer domain on Google.
I just found an article that may be helpful for you: http://www.subiasoft.com/allinanchor-vs-serps.html The sandbox effect can last up to 9 months from what I've heard but if you have some kind of ranking, even for an allinanchor query, I wouldn't think that you would be in the sandbox.
yes i have tons and tons of incoming links, recently this site got listed on first page of del.icio.us and few other top blogs likelifehacker etc and brought thousands of new visitors and several other bloggers linked to it too, i wonder what strategies to follow to come on either top ranking for these terms or atleast top 10.
Nice article but I think it missing a point about the age of the site and the quality of inbound links. Google appears to have figured out to filter junk links with over optimized with anchor text.
I think the age of the site would be a constant in this case meaning that allinanchor queries versus regular queries would probably be equally affected by the age of a site. I agree that they should mention something about getting high quality links instead of any old link although they do mention relevancy at the end which is important. They should probably also mention that Google's link command is not accurate at reporting all the links that are taken into consideration in Google's SERPs.
junk links work just fine assuming you're using an established domain. yes, you're experiencing the sandbox. yes, there's a way out. lot of relevant info here, where I just blogged about it.
Agreed but you can over do it with junk links even with a established domain. I personally seen an established site get penalized by over doing it. But you are in better shape using an established domain with junk links for sure.
What you are saying is that this site is in the "playground" as you put it? Usually when people talk about the sandbox they say that they aren't indexed at all whereas this site has 8000 pages indexed. So, what you mean is that this domain is experiencing the sandbox effect, i.e. they are somewhere in between? Great articles, BTW.
I've gone absurdly overboard on a number of my really old domains... never had a thing happen. my guess is that if something happened it was because of something unrelated or it was a site that was "unsandboxed" vs "never sandboxed." where are you getting this? the sandbox has to do with not ranking, not with not being in the index. if you can't get into the index you've got major problems beyond just the sandbox.
Well the only aspect of the site that I changed was the number of inbound links (mostly junk). Perhaps I could have increased the diveristy of the anchor text a bit more. And, I don't know what you mean by "unsandboxed" vs "never sandboxed".
it's the difference between a site that got out of the sandbox vs a site that was never in it; ie, a site that was in google before the sandbox existed. the second is a far more valuable asset.
sandbox started in 2003. early 2003 sites or earlier are usually fine, and not sandboxed. this is the site, not the domain. the site had to be in google before then
I must admit I haven't had a lot of experience with the sandbox so I tend to forget what I've read and also one of our new sites is incurring some sort of penalty above the sandbox effect i think. Is a site subject to the sandbox effect if the domain changed owners and the whois info changed if the content remains the same or is it just if the whole content is replaced that the site is sandboxed?
neither of the those two would cause it to be sandboxed. assuming it was a "never sandboxed" domain, anyway. not positive it's a "once sandboxed" domain.
Ok well i just checked for allinanchor: game cheats and found my site on page 2 but its showing description of dmoz listing but on normal search it shows my meta description just wondering what is this about ?
They're both showing the same at the moment. The only reason I can think of Google showing your meta tags description over the dmoz description is use of the noodp tag. If your two queries were going to different Google data centres (that had cached your page before and after putting that metatag in) it might explain the discrepancy.