That's what I got from Brad Callen's (of SEOElite) newsletter : http://www.seoelite.com/Lessons/HTML_SEOPowerStrategies6-et.htm Feel free to post your views
I hope the rest of your posts aren't to the same quality To get back on-topic - isn't a myth something that hasn't been witnessed first hand - they are plenty of people who have witnessed the Google Sandbox. I've yet to see a website rank for a competitive keyword in Google 1-2 months after the site was indexed. No matter how many links you fire at the domain it doesn't rank, so I believe it exists, but if its called a Sandbox, Sandpit, Filter, etc. who knows.
I've seen a site get on the first page of google for a number of keywords within a month of its creation. I asked some other SEO peeps about it and they said it was because Google didn't think they were competitive keywords. The number of people searching for the keywords weren't amazing but it also wasn't anything to laugh at. I'm working on optimizing a site right now for the keywords because they are commercial but without much competition and the search volume is just fine so long as I don't invest all my energy into the site. Anyway, all that to say that I do believe there is a sandbox for sites that are optimizing for competitive keywords. But I think there are ways around it for some sites.
I believe "sandbox" is just a check to ensure that no black seo trick can get a competitive keyword ranked on top for any amount of time. It gives some safety to those that have earned their position. This is not to say you cannot get ranked on top in under a month, but more than likely that ranking will be for a minor keyword/catchphrase.
Exactly, for example I am 1st for the keyword: tech rant, and on the first page for X1950XTX benchmarks (i think thats the keyword), but they are seldom searched keywords (well the benchmark one had some popularity this month but won't of had any last month).
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