What do you think is the Google sandbox all about?

[morkasglen]

I have been in the Google sandbox for a long time now and I am quite fed up with it. Just around a month back, I launched my site. As I had duplicate content, I saw that my site was resting in the filter system. About sandbox, I didn’t know anything. Is there anything that will be needed to be done to come out of Google sandbox? What factors are taken into consideration by Google to place a website in the sandbox? Does anyone know how much time Google will actually take to get my site out of this penalty?

[Jim Gillum]

Surprise.....
There is no sandbox......

Now you can all post and tell me I am wrong......
(Read the Google webmasters blog)

And use the links that are in your sig.....

[Rastet123]

Google Sandbox and why bloggers must know about it

There has been an accident to my domain, marketify.com. It has been “sandboxed”. So, what is Google sandbox any way and why you should care about it. This post will answer it all for you so let’s read on.

Is Google Sandbox really a myth?

There has been many articles online about this Google Sandbox topic and most of it agree that if you are referring to “sandbox” as a container which holds up new website inside, then this definitely doesn’t exist. However, if you are referring to sandbox as some lengthy of time when new website is put on hold before Google indexes it then it does really exists.

Google Sandbox has been referred as a myth because the hold time really depends on the age of the domain. Some bloggers may not aware of the existence of the sandbox because it merely happens. However, if you are in the same situation as mine in these days, you will know how’s the feeling of being sandboxed is.

What is Google Sandbox?

So, what’s exactly is Google Sandbox by the way. On April 2003, Google made some algorithm changes to fight against the increasing number of spam sites in Google index. Everyone knows how Google loves fresh and original content, so this action must be taken for the sake of the online world. If your site is established after this day, you will notice it probably take longer to index than sites which are established before 2003.

Even Matt Cutt, famous Google engineer, also referred some clues about this Google Sandbox. He said Google algorithm may treat some new site a way that webmaster in a real world would refer it as being sandboxed.

How long does Google Sandbox last?

To my experience, Google sandbox often last up to 12 months. However, the delay in indexing doesn’t eliminate your link building effort. So while in the sandbox, your backlinks still count and when you’re out of the sandbox, those links will be contributed to determine your ranking position.

How can you check if you are in the sandbox?

The best way to check whether you are in the sandbox is type site: yourdomain.com

If you site doesn’t appear in the search engine result page although Google bot has came and crawled your page for few days, your site would probably be sandboxed.

[janet]

I don't believe sandbox exist. I believe sandbox is just a temporary "inside google" server update. Google says too that sandbox doesn't exist.

[alanwalters]

The 6-8 months delay seem to start with Google's first contact with your web site. The sooner Google knows about your web site, the sooner it will be listed.

It seems that there's nothing that can be done to speed up the sandbox process. Some webmasters in online forums suggested that it might help to get inbound links that point to different web pages of your web site, not just to your index page.

It might also help if your web site has its own IP address and it also seems to help if you have a link from the Yahoo directory. However, these theories haven't been confirmed yet.

[Banners Mall]

Google Sandbox is a system to check new websites, just like a test, protects high quality websites, identifies and kicks spam ones.