Google Sandbox FAQ

You may be right for megacompetitive words or phrases, but in our space, which is still competitive (wildlife shows, reptile shows and the like), which globally account for millions of searches a year, new sites (newly created domains) regularly show up on page one of serp's (rarely top) with minimal SEO.I see them come, watch them and then they dissappear, the usual result being a return to the status quo of the most optimized url's fighting for places on page one.But yes, Google definitely treats their results differently depending on how competitive the word string is.I find for the less competitive strings, on page SEO becomes more important in relativity, but that may be a perception rather than reality. Others here may enlighten (me), us further. All the bestSnakeman

 

No website owner in their right mind will "like" Google's sandbox. However, a smart website owner will use the sandbox as an opportunity to build a website that Google simply cannot refuse.

 

i think the sanbox will be come to the site when a site... has been no normal condition....,,morever.... now algortihme of goole update again......

 

Great info, I have never even heard of this concept until now, I will have to do some more research into it and find if any of my targeted keywords are in the sandbox

 

It is an interesting to know about the sandbox and its disadvantages. Another thing is that I am really appreciate to share the valuable information in understandable and easy language with example.

 

LOL man ! isn't it sound so weird ?

 

nice post.......thanks for sharing!!!!

 

I just learned new things today. I thought I know well enough about SEO. Another thing to be careful about. Thanks!

 

nice post thanks for this info

 

thank you very much.

 

This is a great thread and highly relevant to me these days. I completely agree on your opinions claiming that a Google sandbox exists. I have had similar experience with most of my sites when I set them up. First, for a short period of time, they ranked unnaturally well. Then, all of a sudden, they almost disappeared from the search results. After more or less 4-9 months of creating content and building links they returned to rank for the targeted results. This pattern could be observed with many of my websites.

Now, I have made a new experience. After the last update of the Google algorithm, many of my keywords on established websites seem to have been sandboxed again. They completely disappeared from the search results. I used to have good search results for these keywords for years and even Google Panda update did not harm my rankings. Yesterday, I saw many of my websites disappear from the SERPs for their main keywords.

Is this a new form of sandbox, Google has developed/activated? According to what criteria does it put sites/keywords in the sandbox? How to get out of it again?

Thank you for statements and suggestions.

 

I don't believe sandbox is only way to increase rank.

 

Thanks for sharing such nice information. I really know a lot of points about sandbox in this post. Keep it up with same passion.

 

I have a website where it has same domain name and keyword targeted, but google put it in sandbox too. Can you explain this?

 

Thank you,
this post really helped me to understand the term.

 

lot of info to digest.. maybe I can put off buying that yatch with my website adsense $$$

 

Not so much info IMHO

 

Great post and its help me to check my site where it is in sandbox or not.

 

I am newbie to this SEO thing.Someone suggested me to ping my site using pingomatic kinda sites.Is it really safe to ping your sites through theses sites from perspective of sandbox??Are there any more tools/softwares to do this job??

 

What you say is true. If the first page shows only PR 0 links then getting a new post to the front page would be easy. However, when dealing with root URLs with PR 1 and higher then they are typically well established for the keyword.