Comments on: Google’s Sandbox Documented?

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 12:01:14 +0000

Good question Nicole – if I were you I’d just do what comes naturally – start your sites – write great quality content and let your inbound links develop naturally as others link up to you. I think the problems come for people who buy into mega automatic link building programs where suddenly thousands of links appear over night to their sites. If you start something with some links coming from a few sites I don’t think its goign to be a big problem. Just work on a quality blog and you’ll do ok.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:24:59 +0000

Okay, and how am I supposed to add my new project – which I want to promote of course on my several blogsites – so that I only have ’slow’ growing links? I don’t know of any blogsoftware which says ‘add this link in the sidebar only for two blogs a day’ :(

By: jim

jim — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:35:59 +0000

Please let me know if I’m wrong but Google is just trying to exclude the case where a new site tries to game the system by appearing on the scene with an inordinate amount of backlinks. Where that cutoff (of *too* many backlinks) exist is something that probably needs some examination. Of course, a site that bursts on the scene with 100 backlinks probably has some gaming involved but the blog that an entrenched blogger has created (and thus advertised on his entrenched blog) probably will have more backlinks than the average “just created” blog. We will have to see what will happen I suppose.