Comments on: ProBlogger – Out of Google’s Sandbox

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:17:21 +0000

And among those few happy news, I have a sad news for me …I realise my site is Sandboxed….

@arun…

Would you guide me despite being in Sandbox, how did you keep yourself fetching consistent traffic for your website

By: Lauren-Noelle

Lauren-Noelle — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:40:11 +0000

Hey Darren, I’m wondering if you could answer a quick question. I’m working on a website/project about the Sandbox (it helps me feel better about being in it with another site).

One page is about recorded lengths in the sandbox, so could you confirm some dates – when did you put up ProBlogger on this domain and did you get IN the box in 02/05? You said 8 months.

Thanks so much!

By: Quick Online Tips » Is Google Sandbox Effect Blocking Your Keywords Ranking?

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:27:56 +0000

[...] There are several stories which demonstrate how Google Sandbox has been affecting websites. Search Engine Journal has a story of how SEOmoz escaped the Google Sandbox after 9 months since moving to a new domain name despite over 12,000 natural links from other sites, SEOmoz was only getting 10 or so referrals from Google a day. Recently Problogger exited Google Sandbox and got increased site traffic after getting litle Google traffic for 8 months inspite of many incomming links and after changing their domain name. [...]

By: Amber Jewelry Shop

Amber Jewelry Shop — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:16:25 +0000

Forgot to say that I’ve purchased an expired domain. I hope I will not have to wait all 8 months.

By: Bob Parker

Bob Parker — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:14:51 +0000

That explains a lot for me. I have a few months old shop. 80% of the traffic comes from MSN. I was very surprised, but now I understand what’s wrong.

Thanks for the article.

By: Daymon

Daymon — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:42:00 +0000

I personally don’t worry about Google anymore. If i get traffic from them kudo’s, if not, no loss. My site has been in the “sandbox” for almost a year now. Though I find it very strange that my blog, of the same domain is not being penalized. Anyone else experiencing this?

By: Nevyan Neykov

Nevyan Neykov — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:03:40 +0000

Interesting discussion, after reading lots of posts about getting out of google I’ve found a few practical ways to do so although I haven’t tried them on blogging software, on other websites those principles are working well. On my blog I’ve posted article of 2 parts. I hope you like it.
Cheers.

By: Steamboat Condo

Steamboat Condo — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:08:48 +0000

I put up my site at about the same time It is a real estate site in Steamboat Springs which is competitive. the site is a PR6 and has been for a while. I have only recently stated getting any Google results and the ones I do are often obscure or urelated to anything on my page.

Google is a lot like women, just when you think you understand it…

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:04:57 +0000

I’ve been noticing a Google search result or two trickling in this past week as well; not enough to seriously impact my traffic (less than one percent, so far), but enough to make me hope I’ll be out of the sandbox soon myself.

By: yunasville

yunasville — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:14:45 +0000

Google has some hidden odd ways to deal with new sites, new domains, etc..
I setup my domain name about 3 months ago. I didn’t get anything until I registered with Yahoo directory. Yes, paid dearly $299. Then, my site was indexed right away by almost all major SEs.
I’ve got quite a lot incoming links, but Google still hasn’t updated my PageRank yet.
Another interesting fact: I have about 200 pages of contents and 400 photos are my site, but I am getting 8 times more Google (Image) hits than Google.
Total search engine hits only contribute 10% – 15% of my total hits. So, I don’t even know if I am in a sandbox or not.

By: Mark Lavercombe

Mark Lavercombe — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:11:37 +0000

Interesting

I also ended up finding you via google, Darren, but iirc you were a lucky click on a result way down the list for whatever I was searching for ;-)

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:07:19 +0000

You can extend domain names early (ie you shouldn’t have to wait until they’re up for renewal). Might be worth it – I am guessing you have the funds ;)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:37:19 +0000

i think i did it for one year this time because I didn’t know of the length of domain thing until the last month or so.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:08:39 +0000

that might be it. darren did you reg your blog domain name a year ago and only for one year?

By: wilson ng

wilson ng — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:49:49 +0000

I don’t know if this is valuable, but but wat its worth, I read somewhere that one of the things google is looking at whether your site is a spamming site or not is what is the expiry of your domain name.

If you register your domain only for 1 year, you tend to get fewer points from google because most spam sites register only 1 year.

However, if you are playing for keeps, and register your site for 2 or 3 years in advance, you will be tended to be viewed as a legitimate site, and will rank higher.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:25:32 +0000

Even I am getting more traffic from Google lately. Could it be because they recently expanded their index?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:46:28 +0000

Ok, this sandbox issue is of concern to me.

If you quote other blogs sites, like you do at your DigitalPhotographyBlog.com, does that mean that you can get put in the sandbox. Will google pick that up as plagarism and “content spam”?

By: Aaron F Stanton

Aaron F Stanton — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:19 +0000

Congrats. I hope I can escape it soon, too.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:59:19 +0000

Congrats. My blog is still in the sandbox.

It’s an evil creation. Unamerican. There’s no way to be removed from the sandbox even out of meritocracy.

I was under the impression that all new domains went into the sandbox. I’m pretty sure feedblog.org is in there and I didn’t have the bursty initial link problem that you’ve had.

Kevin

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:53:47 +0000

I believe that I am in the evil sandbox. It is rather frustrating.