I Wish That The Google Sandbox Was Less Harsh
Kevin has just tagged me in the following post: 5 wishs for Google AdWords Editor, the meme was originally started here: If there was an SEO Genie my one wish would be… by Kelvin Shuffle and now I have got to wish for something SEO related.
So here goes, I wish that the Google sandbox/no trust period or whatever you want to call it was less harsh, I understand why it is there and all, it is just that it seems to be taking longer and longer for sites to come out, I know the older a site is the more trust it will have and the higher it will be able to rank but there is definitely a fair bit of feeling like you are banging your head against a brick wall before you even see anything.
Using traditional link building techniques I would say it takes 8 months before you get any real results, I know that if you linkbait on a regular basis you can see results much sooner but this isn’t always possible. I think that 4-5 months would be a lot more reasonable.
I would like to know what the following people would wish for: Nowsourcing, aimClear, Sebastian and OnReact.
Posted in Google By David Eaves
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October 4th, 2007 4 Comments
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October 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am
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October 6th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I’d say the sandbox –if it exists at all– which doesn’t prevent me from launching sites and getting those indexed within a few days can’t be a bad thing. That’s not a real concern. What bothers me is that Googlle needs *weeks* to list my stuff on the first SERPs for money terms.
October 7th, 2007 at 12:23 am
That’s what it is about Sebastian, the sandbox/no trust period does not prevent you from getting sites indexed and ranking for non competitive phrases, it only kicks in on competitive ones and I am finding that for regular sites it is taking more and more time to beat.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
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