Stuck In the Google Sandbox? The Sandbox Solution
What is the Google Sandbox? It’s the mysterious, possibly non-existent web purgatory where millions of sites languish without rankings, visibility, or traffic. How Do You Know if You’re Stuck in the Sandbox? Here’s a rough set of criteria for you. Your site is indexed and appears with the proper title, snippet, and url (www, or no www whichever you picked) – type site:www.yoursite.com into Google to check this. Your site has PageRank (use the Google toolbar, or nichebot.com to find this) It is regularly crawled, and the cache dates are newer than 10 days On your keyword, you rank in the top 20 for allinanchor, allintext, and allintitle. To check this, type, e.g. allinanchor: and see if you’re in the top 20. You do not rank within the first 1000 places for the keyword the site was designed for Does the Sandbox Really Exist, or is it Just the Google Algorithm? This is a big controversy. Everyone has a different opinions. Don’t listen to guys who hand...