IF you are a webmaster and you didn’t hear about the sandbox before, let me make a small prevision about sandbox, sandbox is a temporary penalty imposed by search engines on the new websites witch prevents them from showing in a good ranking with search engines and some times showing no where in the SERP for a long period.
The first question that may comes up is how much the period that the search engines may keep your site in the sandbox, actually the answer for this question depends on many factors:
1- Which search engine you meant in your question, this period is short with MSN some times it is around one month, while it is about four months with Yahoo, with Google it may be extended to more that one year.
2- How match link popularity does your site have, the more inbound quality links your site have the shorter time your site will spend in the sandbox.
3- How much competitive is the keyword that you are targeting for your website, definitely if you are targeting a long term with no competition you are not going to stay the same time as if you are targeting a competitive keyword.
There is something you should always remember, that even if you are out of the sandbox you still need more age for your site to get more trust from the search engine and eventually ranking will and this point is easy to notice with Google.
Here I want to list example for the effect of sandbox, on of my sites www.searchengineoptimizationtoronto.com which is still relatively a new website (About 4 months of age), obviously through this website I am trying to target a long term which is search engine optimization Toronto and the mission looks easy as the domain contains all words, but now after checking the SERP I can see it for the term search engine optimization Toronto:
First spot with MSN, first page with Yahoo, still no where with Google.
Then when I know that my website is in sandbox so what to do??
First thing be patient nothing serious happened, just keep working on your site, and try to make it useful to the visitors, update it regularly. Try to improve the link popularity of your site by getting more inbound links from quality related websites (That is will shorten your stay in the sandbox).
If you really got enough headache reading about sandbox and you don t like to go with your new website through it, then simply buy old website that meets your business with about 2 years old or more and you can save yourself that entire sandbox’s headache.
November 24th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
[...] Finally We Are Out Of Sandbox I want to remind you about my article that related to Google sandbox and its impact about new site: Google Sandbox As I told you before, my domain name is search engine optimization Toronto dot com, which is the same of the term that I am trying to target “search engine optimization Toronto” but that wasn t enough in the first 9 months of the age of this domain with Google, since my site was showing no where with Google for that term, and I want to tell you: - My site mostly has unique original content - All content on the site are seo or SEM related - I have a punch of good related inbound links - The site is search engine friendly But all of that wasn t enough to rank my site well for that term (Even in the first 10 pages) and now after the site spent about 1 year in the sand box, it is finally on the first page with Google. So I need to remind every web master and all seo people that seo is a matter of good content , good optimization and time, so be patient guys Cheers [...]