Comments on: How to escape Google’s ‘Sandbox’ http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/ If you've read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:56:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: malcolm johnston http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-2080 malcolm johnston Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:34:02 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-2080 Does the sandbox still exist in 2009. Seems my new site did well at first (made page 1 in a moderately competetive field) then seemed to plummet overnight. [Well, there's still a <a href="http://chrisstormer.com/2007/05/07/working-at-google/">sandbox</a> at the Googleplex, but it never buried new sites on SERPs.] <img src="http://chrisstormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/googleplex8.jpg" alt="Google's famous Sandbox" title="Google's famous Sandbox" /> Does the sandbox still exist in 2009. Seems my new site did well at first (made page 1 in a moderately competetive field) then seemed to plummet overnight.

[Well, there’s still a sandbox at the Googleplex, but it never buried new sites on SERPs.]

Google's famous Sandbox

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1474 Sebastian Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:59 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1474 John, don't you agree that for each competitors, each URIs of competitors: ping Google daily. end. would be a way too simple negative SEO tool? It doesn't work this way. John, don’t you agree that

for each competitors, each URIs of competitors:
ping Google daily.
end.

would be a way too simple negative SEO tool?

It doesn’t work this way.

]]> By: John Adams http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1472 John Adams Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:13:20 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1472 No, one ping isn't going to hurt you. It's the SUBSEQUENT PINGS that'll do you in. I'll tell you what, Sebastian, ping Google once a day for, say, a week. Wait a few days and then, if you log your visitor referrals, try clicking on those Google referral links and see how many of them still exist on Google. Understand that the sandbox doesn't mean that the pages are no longer indexed on Google. It simply means that entering the usual search terms will no longer work for your pages. No, one ping isn’t going to hurt you. It’s the SUBSEQUENT PINGS that’ll do you in. I’ll tell you what, Sebastian, ping Google once a day for, say, a week. Wait a few days and then, if you log your visitor referrals, try clicking on those Google referral links and see how many of them still exist on Google.

Understand that the sandbox doesn’t mean that the pages are no longer indexed on Google. It simply means that entering the usual search terms will no longer work for your pages.

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1470 Sebastian Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:14:59 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1470 John, since pinging Google services all day long doesn't harm my rankings, I'm not convinced that a sole ping without other signals has the power to bury a site in Google's famous probation quarantine zone. If that would be true, I'd run a pretty successful ranking funeral service. John, since pinging Google services all day long doesn’t harm my rankings, I’m not convinced that a sole ping without other signals has the power to bury a site in Google’s famous probation quarantine zone. If that would be true, I’d run a pretty successful ranking funeral service.

]]> By: John Adams http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1466 John Adams Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:39:02 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/how-to-escape-googles-sandbox/#comment-1466 We operate an e-commerce website and learned a bitter lesson about pinging Google....THE HARD WAY! Do NOT ping Google unless you're willing to have Google act upon the presumption that your website is new, regardless of how old it actually is or for how long it's been well-indexed by Google. Ping Google and you'll go into Google's sandbox, typically for around ten days. Don't believe me? Try it...and watch your listings drop-out of Google's search index. We operate an e-commerce website and learned a bitter lesson about pinging Google….THE HARD WAY!

Do NOT ping Google unless you’re willing to have Google act upon the presumption that your website is new, regardless of how old it actually is or for how long it’s been well-indexed by Google. Ping Google and you’ll go into Google’s sandbox, typically for around ten days. Don’t believe me? Try it…and watch your listings drop-out of Google’s search index.

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