What are your current Google sandbox times?

Here is my situation.

URL purchased Sept 2004, Pages created and inbound links gathered Dec 2004.

SInce then, it has been 13 months and we are still in the sandbox. URL is registered for 10 years, so they know we are not just some spam site.

We are PR 6 home page, 3000 pages of content that is sitting at less than 60% duplication values.

Totally white hat, well optimized site.

13 months, still in the box. Having fun though, built a sand castle, have a shovel and a siv. I think I am going to bury myself up to my neck in the sand and get a tan.

Please share your experiences with your sandbox times. Please be real and honest. Don't tell us that you got out in 1 month with the search query "Yellow monkeys eating purple bananas"

 

8 months... registered until 2015... DMOZ listed... Blah. MSN sends 3k uniques / mo and is increasing. Google sends 100. Blah. 13 months, wow you just crapped on my day.

 

Oh man, I didn't need to hear that, 6 months for me.

I think I still got a long way to go.

 

Waiting since March 05

 

I am in pharmacy and have built a site soooooo big, that when the gates come down........

The sand will settle and the $$$$ will flow, but until then, I site and thank MSN for their visits. They love us, because we are real, unique, clean, and fresh.

What better results for a SE right. Making a visitor happy by giving them real results.

Too bad for the sandbox, go after your 2004 queries.

 

How do you know you are not out?
The only way you know is if you get hits in from competitive keywords...maybe your competition is better than you?
I am not a sandbox expert...but maybe your keyword is just too competitive or something?

Pete

 

My sector is Spanish Property and I have been waiting for just over 1 year (Dec 04).

It has nothing to do with ALL of my competition being better than my site, maybe some of the top 10 are however this doesn't warrant being shoved out at result 100 and something and out ranked by Mr Smith selling his apartment in Spain on eBay

This domain ranks page 1 for all my targeted keywords on Yahoo and MSN and page 1 for allinanchor:keyword(s) on Google, so definitely some filter being applied.

It's extremely disheartening when you have worked hard for a year gathering content paying someone to word that content professionally, hunting links, blah blah blah.

I used to be a very impatient man, the sandbox has taught me to be patient so one good thing has come out of it

 

I've got a site thats been in the sand pit for 18 months now, do I win?

 

18 months! That's really cheered me up thanks J.P