The Fact about Google’s Sandbox

I’ve researching about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) thoroughly these past days. Eventually I stumbled upon an article published by seo-gold.com.

“In our experience what we are seeing here is a delay in ranking from links and a kind of trusted status when a domain reaches a certain stage, it’s like a PRX link to a non-trusted site isn’t resulting in a quick benefit like you would have seen a couple of years ago. Now it takes 6 or more months for a new link to transfer significant benefit and longer for full benefit. We’ve speculated this is to thwart the text link sellers, a webmaster purchases a bunch of links and sees their home page PR jump, but three months in no significant traffic increase to warrant the cost. Hold on 6 months and see some benefit from the links and the longer you keep the links better it gets. The problem is how many webmasters are going to hold on those 6+ months with no guarantied ROI!”

They are saying that it make take atleast six months before we see actual benefit from the efforts we put into our blogs.

Yaiks! And I have been flickering from one blog to another like there was no tomorrow.

So what do we do while our new blog is in the sandbox.

“So what can a webmaster do about a sandboxed web site? Quite a bit, they can treat the site as though it’s not sandboxed working on link campaigns, optimizing content, adding new content etc… since eventually if you add enough stable links and are patient your site will leave the sandbox.”

It means we have to give a blog atleast six months before we can judge whether it is successful or not. Or we could aim for Yahoo or MSN for the meantime since their search engines seem to have a looser aging requirement.

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