Comments on: The Google Sandbox

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:51 +0000

My website has suffered from this. Very frustrating. Even though I know I’ve got the keywords right and first class content – it hardly ranks with Google.

By: diseño de logotipos

diseño de logotipos — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:03:47 +0000

My site has been live for one month and if you enter two of my keywords together im in the first result, but if you entrer just one i nowhere in sight, can this be related to the sandbox?

By: Tips on buying a new website « How to Web & Blog

Tips on buying a new website « How to Web & Blog — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:13:54 +0000

[...] over a mature site (at least 12 months old) will mean you avoid the Google sandbox, a significant perk of buying established web property. Of course it really depends at what stage [...]

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:41:41 +0000

This explains what happened to my sites a couple of months ago and on the next update my pages and links where listed.

By: Jeff Barson

Jeff Barson — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:22:58 +0000

The sandbox certainly exists. Unfortuately, Google seems to have instigated the same strategy with new sites as with new hires.. better to keep the bad out than let the good in.

By: How To Make Money Online Using Niche Content Websites » Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:41:08 +0000

[...] Once you find a few niches you think have potential search those keyphrases and see what results show up. If the natural search result sites that turn up are badly optimized (look for low PageRank, poor title keyphrases and heading tag keyphrases) and you are confident that a site with well optimized content would quickly jump to the top of the rankings and by quickly I mean about 3-6 months (remember the Google Sandbox is going to impact how quickly you get high rankings) then you might have your first candidate for a niche content site. [...]

By: » How To Buy A Website And Flip It For Profit » Entrepreneur’s Journey by Yaro Starak

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:28:54 +0000

[...] Taking over a mature site (at least 12 months old) will also mean you avoid the Google sandbox, a significant perk of buying established web property. Of course it really depends at what stage you take over a website as to how much of a step-up you gain and will no doubt reflect how much the owner will expect to receive for it (traffic for cash in simpler terms, but there are other variables to consider when selling a website). [...]

By: Entrepreneur’s Journey » Google Blog Search

Entrepreneur’s Journey » Google Blog Search — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:38 +0000

[...] I did some tests of my sites and one thing I noticed was the Google sandbox is having a strong effect on this site (or at least I presume it is), which makes me wonder how deep in the sandbox this site is for general web search (here’s hoping in a few months time when this site rises out of the sandbox I get a huge influx of search traffic). My other blog, The Official BetterEdit Blog, where this blog was born, is well indexed and showed up for many search terms I used trying to find this blog. The old blog has a lot fewer backlinks and lower quality backlinks in a PageRank sense than this blog does, but since it’s hosted on a domain that is nearly five years old it’s showing up well in the results and isn’t very sandy at all. [...]

By: Entrepreneur’s Journey » Does Yahoo! Search Have a Sandbox?

Entrepreneur’s Journey » Does Yahoo! Search Have a Sandbox? — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:37:45 +0000

[...] You might remember my article on the Google sandbox, a theory that new websites must wait before Google will take them seriously and index them high up in the search results pages. The wait can take as long as 12 months and is designed to stop spam sites from showing up high in results. [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:53:11 +0000

Thanks Edward, I’ll give it a shot.