Web masters across the globe keep complaining about the dreaded "Google sandbox". Why are they in it? How do they get out of the Google sandbox? When does your web site get to the adult stage and get into the searches that everyone is looking for? Then rank high... The search engine optimization nightmare.
Some people complain about how their sites never get indexed by Google or that the big bad "Google sandbox" traps their sites for 3-4 months -- sometimes more. How do you get indexed by the search engine spiders? How do you get ranked?
The BIG question is... does the Google sandbox really exist?
Many experts in the SEO (search engine optimization) field will tell you that the Google sandbox is somewhat of a myth. I tend to agree. In fact, the "sandbox" really hasn't been a problem for my web sites at all. Within this short article, I will tell you how I've been avoiding the sandbox and how you can too (it's really a lot easier than you might think)
Why is the Google sandbox a myth?
Here's the short answer. Google is VERY suspicious about any new web site that it stumbles across, no matter how it gets to that web site. Right away, Google will track HOW it was first introduced to your web site. Did it get there through manual submission? Or through a mass subission software? Did they come to you through articles, blogs, one way links?
If your web site was introduced to Google via a brand spanking new blog (or website), Google will be suspicious. If your website was introduced via a sudden flood of new, one-way links (especially from low authority, low PR sites) to your site, Google will be suspicious. If your web site was introduced to Google via a new RSS feed from a brand new web site/blog, Google will be suspicious.
However, if Google is introduced to your site by a couple of high PR, well indexed, well aged, web sites that have already earned the "trust" of Google (and that's a big key to success), will your site also earn the trust of Google?
I think so, and this is been my recipe for success with Google. I have been in this game long enough where I already have a bunch of PR 4,5,6 sites that I can use to easily introduce a new sites to Google and quickly influence their decision on whether or not my site can be trusted. And trust of you and your web sites is key in Google's mind.
Do you have any high PR (or well aged) websites that Google already trusts to link to your web sites?
If not, you should get some. You could wait several months and let your current sites become ranked naturally and eventually get a page rank (PR) of 4 or 5... OR you can take a short cut...
Check GoDaddy's site at
http://www.dnforum.com every day for their list of expired domains. There are also discussion boards like
http://www.dnforum.com where you can buy well-aged domain names with a high page rank. Or, use a service like
http://www.NameSpy.com to find high ranked, expired domains.
Then, once you have a few high PR sites, it's easy to slowly introduce Google and their spiders to your new site by adding an anchor text link from your authority sites to this new site (preferably if they are hosted on different IP blocks).
*** VERY IMPORTANT ***: DO NOT include any AdSense/Yahoo ads or affiliate ads on your site for at least 3-4 weeks -- until Google is already crawling your site and you have gained their trust. Remember: "Trust is Trust" and this is true in the internet world too.
You can also get into Google's "good grace" by submitting an article to a handful of article directories (or submitting your site to a few SEO approved link directories and human re-viewed directories) and then just sitting back and waiting 30 days. Once again, Google will find your site naturally and the fact that only a small number of article directories are linking to your new site, it won't set off any alarms that you are trying to manipulate the engines.
Then go on to increase your presence in the article directories. Change you articles slightly for the next round of submissions. Grow links slowly this way. And be sure to change your article slightly with each round of article directory submissions. In this manner, your web site will get noticed by the search engines and will grow the links to it organically.
Most of this stuff is common sense, but we all get a little impatient now and then. We want results, we want them now, we want Google to index our site ASAP... but those who are patient are the ones who end up winning in the end and avoiding the ever popular Google "sandbox".
In fact, after following the above steps you will soon find that the Google sandbox doesn't really affect you at all. In fact, the search engines want relevant content. They would rather you go back to the days when web sites provided their visitors with the information that they were requesting when they searched the web, instead of a bunch of ad and sales pages spamming everyone. There's something to be sead about "white-hat" techniques when it comes to getting the search engine spiders to notice your web site.
Don't be impatient and take advantage of the traditional, white-hat techniques that are available to you to get your web sites indexed by the search engines.