Posts Tagged ‘Google Sandbox’
SEO - Get Your Site Out of the Google Sandbox Fast!
Is your new site sitting in the infamous Google “sandbox”? There is a way to get it out fast, as well as getting all of your other pages indexed!How?
Write an article on your site topic and upload it to your website. You can either put it on your index page, or place a snippet of the content with a link to your new article on your index page. Then - submit your article to all the free article directories you can find. It doesn’t even have to be a long article - just as long as it offers value to the reader.
Submitting your article to the free article directories also means that you get instant valuable back links to your site which is vital if you want to rank well in Google.
How do I know whether my site is in the Sandbox?
If your site is in the sandbox, if you do a search for http://www.yoursite.com in Google, you will probably just see this kind of information displayed on the results page:
http://www.yoursite.com
If your site is indexed in Google, the results page will look like this:
http://www.yoursite.com Your site description and what your site is about will appear here.
Google can show you the following information for this URL:
· Find web pages that are similar to www.youresite.com
· Find web pages that link to www.youresite.com
· Find web pages from the site www.youresite.com
· Find web pages that contain the term www.youresite.com
You can also do a check at http://www.uptimebot.com to see how many of your pages are indexed by the search engines.
Proof that this method works?
I recently registered two new websites and linked to them from one of my sites that have PR. Doing a search for them showed that both of them just showed up as http://www.mysites.com which means that they were not indexed yet. Checking on Uptimebot it showed that Google had one link for each of them, but no additional pages.
After writing an article related to the one site, I uploaded it to my site and submitted it to the various article directories. The next day’s search showed that my site was in the Google Index because it was showing the additional information about my site, and a check on Uptimebot revealed that I now had all of my pages (20) indexed in Google.
Now that I know this method works, I will be doing it for my other sites as well. Don’t you think you too should get writing?
What is the Google Sandbox Effect?
In the age of fair competition you may find it hard to believe that a search engine may hinder the appearance of a new website. This is what is currently believed to be happening on more Search Engines. Some SEO Guru’s have viewed Google as uncomfortable to rank newer websites until they have proven their viability to exist for more than a period of “x” months. Thus the term “Sandbox Effect” applies to the idea that all new websites have their ratings placed in a holding tank until such time is deemed appropriate before a ranking can commence.
However the website is not hindered as much as the links that are reciprocated from other users. Newer links that are created are put on a “probationary” status until again they pick-up in rank from other matured sites or placed directly by an ad campaign. The idea behind the hindrance is to prevent a fast ranking to occur on a new website. The usual holding period seems to be between 90 and 120 days before a site would start obtaining rank from reciprocal or back linking.
Some advice has been given to have companies you are going to reciprocate back add your link first to the website. This may help grandfather your site in, thus reducing the waiting time associated with “new” websites. People have noticed a 0 page rank when first signing up and receiving a bolstering 7 page ranking after 4 months. Why the delay? The fact is, that if people realized how easy it would be to get a high ranking, would that take away the credibility of the engine. It depends on whom you ask, but it does seem to be happening frequently to newer web sites. Do not discontinue back linking, your rank will eventually appear.