My site has had the sandbox treatment?

Discussion in 'Google' started by matty281k, May 14, 2008.

  1. #1
    I've never had this before i seemed of slipped the net,

    my new blog has about 800-900+ results for the domain in google

    The blog is like 2 months old and gets 0 traffic from google, ive used no blackhat techniques and my site is predicted a pr5.

    Everything indexes fine, google cashes regularly.

    And i have lots of good content.

    The only thing i did is deny affiliate links in robots.txt because i cloaked them with redirect. now loads of sites do this and dont get penalized

    what could it beee?

    is google just waiting till it thinks my site is trusthworthy?
     
    matty281k, May 14, 2008 IP
  2. orioncs

    orioncs Peon

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    #2
    Google gives some strength to new domains then they get into sandbox for 6 months or so. So just wait some time and it will get back from sandbox.
     
    orioncs, May 14, 2008 IP
  3. angilina

    angilina Notable Member

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    #3
    "my site is predicted a pr5"

    Prediction tools are nothing but waste of time. My site was predicted to be PR7 few months ago and it is still PR0 after 3 PR updates.

    I suggest you keep building backlinks and add new content in your blog regularly, and hope fully google will rank your blog well in search results soon.
     
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  4. InfoSmith

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    that's why people like to buy old domains. New domain has this problem, always. Like new born child :(
     
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  5. matty281k

    matty281k Active Member

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    hmm ive never had this problem before at all.

    This domain has loads of good content as well
     
    matty281k, May 14, 2008 IP
  6. sleuth1

    sleuth1 Well-Known Member

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    yep, never seen any evidence of this ( new site sandbox ) many blogs are becoming seen as junk ( because of the incestuous links structure ) -read - rate - do same . Get off of this interlinking structure ( if it is the case ) and you will do better in SEO ( not necessarily in traffic )
     
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  7. ranjuse

    ranjuse Banned

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    Cloaking Is A Big Mistake
     
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    Such a bad idea for cloaking, your rankings might slipping and your site needs more strong backlinks.
     
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  9. matty281k

    matty281k Active Member

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    hmm so i shud just leave my affiliate links as they are? no cloak them in .htaccess?
     
    matty281k, May 15, 2008 IP