Google Sandbox
 

Realistically, how long do you think it takes a new site to get out?

Depends on a lot of factors. The industry, keywords, where you get your links from, how you get them, how many, and so on. I've had sites break out in as early as 3 months and as much as 15 months.

type the word failure into google...funny shit

Have you ever heard of Google mention a "Google Sandbox"?
Is someting invented out of the thin air.

15 months...UGH! Thanks for the info pocket :thumbsup

What he said...
WG

Google has never publically confirmed it, and I am not here to definitively say it exists. Just from my experience (and I am not alone) I believe it does.

The greatest feat the devil ever accomplished was convincing the world he doesn't exist.

How do you know? Must take a lot of testing to find that out! And during that time there are new rules.
I'm tired of of that "knowledge"

as long as you do shit in a "natural" manner there's no need to worry about the sandbox

well i dont 100% agree
3 months for the keyword "fat ass tranny bitches fucking midgets"
9 months is the general
after 3 months no site is out of the sandbox

Wanna give out the link to the site in question? Might give a better idea of why you're in there in the first place.

Actually they have in a way mentioned it a few times at major webmaster conferences. Even Matt Cutts (a Google engineer) has stated on his blog that there is an aging filter in place.

I have had sites that went into the sandbox for 3 to 5 months and others that have been in it for over a year...

The lower ones I just kept doing whitehat tactics... slow link building with sites that had content and adding content to my own site.

The higher ones I am targeting other search engines without sandboxes so I couldn't give a fuck about Google in their cases.

I`ve had new domains show up in the search results a month after they were registered.
I had a site ready the moment I registered it and some backlinks,so I don`t know if that has anything to do with it...

There is no "Sandbox"

If I publish a new site and link to it from a site visited by Google it is linked in a few days.

The SEO:s love to invent new things and you follow like a stupid flock of muslims.

I do it for a living, albeit primarily in the mainstream sector. I've probably had about 300-400 domains go up in the past year and a half. I've tested many of them with different factors and have seen varied results.

As for not getting out in 3 months, I've had a few. To be honest, I was able to pick up a DMOZ, Yahoo!, and Wikipedia link in the first month on one along with a couple other relevant links. But for the most part, the norm is 9 months.

Google has themselves admitted to the aging delay filters they have in place that we refer to as "sandbox". Perhaps it's not a good name, but anyone who is in SEO will tell you that there is a delay in ranking sites. It is no coincidence that your site that you've worked on for 9 months jumps from spot #980 to #2 overnight.

Also, sandbox has nothing to do with being indexed or in the Google results. It has to do with ranking for competitive terms.

Are you insinuating that only muslims follow their leaders blindly? :winkwink:

I must be a little rude:

How do you know that?

Personal friends at Google?

As I said before, I'm tried of all this "knowledge" published by people not fom Google.

Indeed I do.

Google engineers have acknowledged this first off.

Second, I've setup 300-400 domains, I've watched thousands of domains, and I've talked with and shared thoughts with a lot of other SEOs/webmasters. This is my experience and it seems almost every other webmaster in the world has had the same one.

Lastly, Google isn't going to tell you what their algorithim is. They aren't going to be forward with filters, delays, and so on. They hate SEOs.

So, why are you publishing shit like "sandbox" and so on when you know nothing about it?
Frankly, Google is like the chef in the army, just mixing the soup from time to time so everyone can get their shair of the fat. Easy as that.

Stop inventing new words and other stupid things.

I didn't invent the word. It has been used by webmasters for almost 2 years now to describe the delay in ranking new sites in Google. Some call it an "age filter" or whatnot, but the majority of people refer to it as the sandbox.

Monro, I do a lot of seo too, and you have to be doing something really off-base to not see a time delay penalty of sorts which we call a 'sandbox'. It never changes, and while the actual 'sandbox' may not exist ... the behaviour of the algos definitely creates the illusion of one.

So stop being argumentitive for the sake of being argumentitive and you might just learn something ;)

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With you on this one - I also do a lot of SEO/usability and sandbox is a term that's been around quite a while.

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thank god i bought a shitload of domains years ago and always kept em active. this sandbox thing is stupid but you can thank the seo spammers for it.

My mainstream blogs never missed a beat in google rankings. Some of my other shit was sandboxed for a year. Are you guys sure there is no way around the aging filter because I've been getting good SE traffic from nice spots as soon as 2 days after a site went live.

Well said.

Depends on the terms. Typically blogs get a lot of traffic because they have an immense amount of content. I bet if you look at your stats a majority of the traffic is coming from smaller, non-competitive terms. You can get a lot because of the content, which adds up to be a lot of traffic. However, if you're targeting a term that is highly competitive, it is next to impossible to rank with a new site in a short period of time. A lot depends on the industry too. Targeting mortgage for instance is usually held down longer than a site talking about garden supplies.

Not small terms but definately not the most competitive either. I'm not so shit hot at getting those listings before or after a sandbox. :1orglaugh

What I mean is, some of the mid range but still popular terms always do better for me on a blog. Even if I had put the same content on a regular site the backlinks and quick indexing make the blog win. Also, I have had sites get in google for a couple of weeks then disappear for months but so far never happened to a blog optimized to get backlinks etc automatically.

http://roberttaft.com/no_filter.htm

a tool to see if your sandboxed.

I think blogs have a lot of advantages that help it rank as well. First the fact they are updated frequently is a plus in Google's eyes. Second, they aren't really a threat in Google's eyes either. They typically aren't getting an abundance of links with anchor text and they typically have more naturally looking content than someone who built a page strictly for SEO. You fly under their radar for the most part and reap the rewards. Seems like you know what you are doing though.

It will also show if your older site is being filtered in some way by Google. This can be caused by getting too many irrelevant links, abusing anchor text, or getting caught in a link network.

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it can be 0-long time.

if you have a new site and cnn starts linking to you, you will get out damn soon. if you have decent links it could be a coupel months. you have garabge links, could be forever.

I had a non adult site in the past it had a lousy ranking page 115 with google. Suddenly after about a good 12 months it was there on page one 5th position. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact i renewed the domain name. Traffic went trough the roof for that site. Just wait and see what happens. Google is to complicated to master it IMO

yeah, right

I don't understand why but with one of my blog it took less then a week... and a month after I was PR5

But with most of my other projects it took +- 3-4 months