What is the Google sandbox

The Google Sandbox

You’ve designed a great site, the content is top-notch, and the pages are SEO to the nth degree.  But the rankings are still low in Google, despite having done everything exactly right.  Welcome to the Google Sandbox, a sort of twilight zone for many new sites.  It is a sort of waiting area where your site is still considered in searches, but it isn’t getting the prominence that it deserves.

There are a few ways to get out of the sandbox faster, or even avoid it altogether.  Some experts advise buying an existing domain, or one that has recently expired.  To Google, it appears to be a continuously operating domain, and thus does not go into the sandbox with “newbie” domains.  Making your site a sub domain of an existing domain in Google’s database is usually effective at avoiding sandboxing, for the same reason.

Think of the sandbox as the kiddie pool.  Look around at the other newcomers, and learn what they are doing wrong so that you can improve your own site.  Once you have advanced to treading water, you’ll begin to make friends, via links and backlinks, and by having a good strong healthy relationship with them, you’ll rise up out of the sandbox.

Learn to swim.   Most people think the Google Sandbox is to weed out scams and marketing schemes based on SEO manipulation, and to a degree this may be true.  But it is also to weed out those who aren’t really interested, conserving the bandwidth for active participants with constantly changing content rich pages.  Associate yourself with top ranked sites by linking to them, and getting ranks back from them.  Get a listing in other high ranked search engines, or top industry directories.  Once you’ve shown that you aren’t going to do anything naughty in the pool, you can move out into the open waters.

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