Comments on: The Google Sandbox Effect on Your Blog SEO

By: Vizlog poslovni adresar

Vizlog poslovni adresar — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:24:05 +0000

I was afraid of Google sandbox after one of my small websites disappeared, but I rad a lot about Google and came with the answer that you must constantly work on the site so Google and users can realize that your site is worth of visiting.

After this I made a site that wasn’t touched with Google sandbox. Google says all the time that you must keep users with interesting content. So do that!

By: Zoi

Zoi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:06:21 +0000

“pretty much any new domain will end up in the Google sandbox”

- yes it will ’cause it is a new website. So the site needs to work on its popularity and get inbound links as much as it can. There are older sites then a site that is just uploaded and has a new domain. So, the the ice cream truck won’t sell ice cream if it stays in a garage all the time.

What I want to say is that you must tell people that your site exists and put interesting content in it.

Here is an article in Serbian ’cause I didn’t find any yet:

Google sandbox efekat

or some other SEO tips:

Web dizajn zona – blog

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:31:13 +0000

@ Dood: that’s more like being banned for spamming, so yes, you could be sandboxed as Google is trying to prevent exactly that with a sandbox

@ Peter: you are well and truly out of the sandbox. Since the domain was parked, it was live all that time and would have come out of the box many years ago.

@ everybody: that is why you buy pre-owned domains and not new ones if you can help it.

By: Peter K

Peter K — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:50:34 +0000

I’m also new, began on WordPress just ten days ago, with a hosted blog on a domain I’d reserved about ten years ago – it has been parked all this time – is there a risk of it ending up in Google’s fearsome sandbox?

Peter

By: Dood

Dood — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:01:36 +0000

I heard sending massive article to article directories will also resulting your domain to be sandbox. Is it true? Anybody know how many ‘instant backlink’ from article directories will give that effect?

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:29 +0000

Yep, Gobala just said it,

And dojo isn’t a meaningless name for Japanese fighting sport students either, so there you will get related terms since it would be searched quite often. (actually about 2,500 times a day!)

Wherelse techtracer has no search results. So unless you do 100 searches every day for the next 30 days plus this probably won’t change so quick.

By: Gobala Krishnan

Gobala Krishnan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:19:36 +0000

It’s just the spell check feature. When more people actually type in “techtracer” into Google search, they will realize the trend and stop offering a correction. Same like unusual names (Gobala Krishnan), initially my name has a correction to it but as more people type in the exact phrase and do not click on the correction suggested by Google, their algo will adjust accordingly.

By: nitinpai

nitinpai — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:12:49 +0000

Hey monika,

Nice information about the sandbox. Well I would like to know one more thing. My blog has been there from about 10 months.

The domain name and blog name are the same which is “Techtracer”. But when I search “Techtracer” Google shows me a correction as “Techtracker”. Why can’t Google list my site without that correction shown.

I have noticed that other blogs with meaningless names are shown without any correction. Example search “dojo”.

Why “Techtracer” only? Is this a sandbox thing?

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:41:34 +0000

Fred: It is hard to really know for sure, but a good indicator is when your blog posts usually hit the front of Google and then disappear without a trace without any ranking at all!

If you go to http://www.shoemoney.com and click on the serps tab along the top you can track your keywords in the 4 main search engines and see how you rank.

This is normally how I check them.

By: Fred Chan

Fred Chan — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:36:59 +0000

Hi,

How I wish you wrote this posting earlier. I just started my blog in November 2007 with a new domain name http://www.fredchanblog.com

How do I know or how to check whether my site has been sandwich? Can you advice?

Fred