Seeing no Sandbox

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by aaron_nimocks, Dec 23, 2005.

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    I have made a quite of sites and experienced the sandbox but with one of my sites I just seemed not to get in it.

    Its a site for cheat codes (very very popular search) and I have received 1585 referrals from Google this month so far and all of these terms should be sandboxed. Now this site is over 2 months old so thats the only reason why I am saying this because I should have felt the effect of this by now.

    You can check out the stats page here.

    http://www.my-internet-shop.com/sandbox.htm

    Any comments on this? Or has anyone ever had a site older than 3 months that got put in the sandbox?
     
    aaron_nimocks, Dec 23, 2005 IP
  2. whispering-death

    whispering-death Guest

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    Intresting, how I wish my sites would miss the sandbox.
     
    whispering-death, Dec 24, 2005 IP
  3. Carlito

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    So what was different about this site? Did you build links slower than usual? Domain older?? More authority links??? Anything about the site itself that is different than your other sites?
     
    Carlito, Dec 24, 2005 IP
  4. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    I often get google traffic on new sites for lots of liitle non competitive phrases

    the term "playstation cheat codes" has only 2 people buying adwords for it, perhaps its not that competitive.
     
    ferret77, Dec 25, 2005 IP
  5. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    I would think it would be competitive with 2000+ searches per day for that term. But who knows you could be right. :)
     
    aaron_nimocks, Dec 25, 2005 IP
  6. mdvaldosta

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    I've got one site that hasn't hit the sandbox either. Only thing I can contribute it to is that it was registered for 2 years (instead of 1) and the baclinks have been acquired slowly (the site wasn't a priority). It's now 4 months old and gets twice as many G hits as another site of mine (in the sandbox) getting 2k uniques from MSN alone.

    I think the combination of slow backlinks and multi-year registration has helped.
     
    mdvaldosta, Dec 25, 2005 IP
  7. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    I registered it for 1 year and dumped a bunch of sitewide backlinks on it all at once and submitted to 250 directories all within a week. So I didnt build links slow at all.
     
    aaron_nimocks, Dec 25, 2005 IP
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    Dang, I submitted to 350 directories within a few days on one of my site's a couple months ago and it STILL hasn't gotten indexed. I've registered other sites since then and they've all been indexed within a week.

    You must be lucky, or me unlucky, or both.
     
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    One of my sites got to the 1st place on day one for 20m competition keyword and its still there after 2 months.
     
    mightyb, Dec 25, 2005 IP