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No Sandbox for ChrisKnudsen.biz
I just ran a look up of my blog through Google and found that I was almost instantly indexed. I never saw the sandbox. That rocks! Even problogger Darren Rowse says he spent eight months in the sandbox and his site is off the charts popular!Â
What’s the sandbox you ask?
The sandbox is like purgatory for Web sites seeking to be in the Google index. They exile you there until you prove yourself worthy to be in their presence.  No one really knows what qualifies (or disqualifies) you for the sandbox and no one knows how long it takes to get out. There are even those who claim it does not exist, that its simply a figment of Webmaster’s imaginations. Google will not confirm or deny its existence. All I know is that I’m in the index.
Do you think the sandbox is real?
Do you think the sandbox is real?
No, I do not. Why would they keep pages out of the index? To be a small and weak SE? What reason would they have to do it?
But hey, I’ve been wrong before.
Left by Gabriel Gunderson on 05/13/2006Yeah, I think it’s real. However, it doesn’t keep you completely out of the index, it just keeps you from ranking well for competitive terms. What keywords do you put in to find your site?
Left by Janell on 05/13/2006Yeah it definitely happens some of the time. Many people argue that it’s not really a sandbox, but more of a filter, but whatever you call it, the fact is some new sites are filtered from Google’s results (usually temporarily) and others are not filtered. Many new sites simply trigger some of Google’s anti-spam filters that keep you from showing up at the top of the search results for some keywords–and it’s usually just temporary. After several months, if the site checks out, Google lets it out and it starts to show up for more keywords and send more traffic. If Google’s automated checks continue to indicate that a site is spammy, it will continue to stay in the “sandbox” or booted out of Google’s index completely. The most important factor for determining whether this sandbox effect will occur is links pointing to a site. Links from certain sites are viewed as more trusted than others, so it helps a new site avoid the sandbox if you’ve got links from high quality, relevant sites. Half of all webmasters believe that the sandbox exists and the other half thinks it’s a bunch of bull. The ones that don’t think it exists are just the lucky ones that haven’t felt its effects yet.
Left by Dave Bascom on 05/15/2006Unfortunately you may not be in the clear yet - many new sites get indexed for a short while before the “sandox” goes into effect.
Left by ryan on 05/25/2006