Does The Google Sandbox Exist?
April 7th, 2009 | by Conrad Walton |It’s never been confirmed, but I’m here to say that it is real. I’ve seen it! I was driving down a desert road, late one night, and I saw a bright light in the sky, coming toward me really fast, …but that’s a story for another time.
It's never been confirmed, but I'm here to say that it is real.
Then it all went horribly wrong.
After about a month, they were no where to be found. I had built my backlinks. I had linked from other sites I owned. I wrote my articles on the article directories. I followed all of the SEO lessons that I’d been learning. Nothing. They were no where to be found.
For the next month or so, I kept working the sites, doing my SEO efforts, but after a while, I just didn’t care any more. I gave up and moved on to other things.
I just went back and checked this morning. They all have a PR of 2 now. Even the 2 that have no content. I didn’t do anything different in the last week on them. They just changed.
My guess now is that you should put out the new website with no backlinks for a month. Let it stand on it’s own for a bit. Don’t put a lot of content on it, just enough to get the keywords working. Use your keyword density and all that. Then add maybe one link after a couple weeks, then a couple more. It seems to be very touchy about how soon those backlinks are created.
I don’t think that all sites get a time out in the sandbox, but it appears more to be an effect of how many backlinks are created and how fast. A new site should have no backlinks, really.
Next time, we’ll try that. I’ll let you know how that experiment goes.
You got PR because there was are PR update
Are the sites ranking for their keywords as well?
I wouldn’t call this google sandbox. I call it google honeymoon period. New websites / new articles sometimes get higher rank in google, it may just be some google algorithm trying to rank ‘breaking news’.
Jeet’s last blog post..Are you tired of looking for dofollow blogs?