What is Google Sandbox?

Started by sneha1234, March 23, 2012, 03:33:13 AM

sneha1234

Google sandbox is a place where google places the new domains after temporarily reducing their page ranks for few weeks before bringing them in top SERP rankings.

John23

As of me Google sandbox is just a myth in SEO that doesn't exist. In some ways, they believe that through sandbox, site will get rank in search engines, but as i told, it doesn't exist and it was just an excuse to those people who doesn't have enough skill in SEO.

SteveJazz

Obviously website owners do not feel the need to have a sandbox at all because it restrains the traffic flow to their website, which a good Google ranking can fetch.My recent observations however have led me to believe that the time your website spends in the Google Sandbox should be seen as a golden opportunity rather than a frustrating inevitability.

charlesth

If your new website keyword get high rank on search engine result page in short time than search engine put your website in Google sand box for sometime and verify whether website get high ranking by doing ethical techniques or it use spam techniques.

Crippen

The Google Sandbox Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google SERP's. New websites are put into a "sandbox" or a holding area and have their search ratings on hold until they can prove worthy of ranking.

Jessica

Quote from: John23 on March 26, 2012, 06:11:06 AM
As of me Google sandbox is just a myth in SEO that doesn't exist. In some ways, they believe that through sandbox, site will get rank in search engines, but as i told, it doesn't exist and it was just an excuse to those people who doesn't have enough skill in SEO.

It is not a myth. Google sand-box is a theory used to explain the reason behind newly-registered domains and the domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google's SERP ranking.
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xword5601

The sanbox "effect" is that a new site gets a boost (so that if its good it can accumulate links organically) when it is first indexed.
After a a coule of days and upto a couple of weeks it can ride at a high position. If it isn't popular it falls back to where it would have without the boost. Sometimes it seems like a new site won't rank.The sandbox effect is much less than it used to be as there are many other more powerful metrics in the search algorithms today. However new sites do still get an initial boost. The time you are in it is not determined. 6 months is a very rough guide, again though, the effects are very minimal now compared to a few years ago.
If you think you are in the sandbox you just need to continue with ethical SEO practices until you come out of it.
Many people confuse the sandbox with a penalty. It is not a penalty. If you get a penalty it is a completely differnet story to the sandbox effect.
There is no reason a new site can't get ranked and getting lots of links in a short space of time is not a bad thing. It just means you had something lot sof people were interested in!

Black Ninja

I think, Send box consider a probationary period apply by Google. In this period, website will not perform well in Google search. Even, you have done lots of SEO works.

sufalamtech

Google Sandbox is very similar to a new website being placed in less competitive searches website. It used in banning your blog from google serp.

yoscommerce

Google Sandbox referred to sites that were "restricted" in some ways in performance, limiting their ability to do well search terms etc. The result is that a new site does not obtain excellent rankings for its most significant keywords and keyword phrases for few months.

biber

Google sandbox update at end of every weak and many sites lost ranking on Google. 

siyajoshi

Hello....
The principle behind Sandbox is that new web sites can be penalized - or rather prevented from achieving the same success in the Google rankings as more established web sites. Newly web sites are placed in sand box when Google confirm it authority site then it comes out of sandbox....:)

vanywan

 The Google Sandbox Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google

elenabrown

Google Sandbox is a Google algorithm which keeps tracks of the methods that we are trying to build backlinks for our blogs. Google Sandbox tracks the IP address of our computer and will notice how much and how frequently we are building a backlinks for our blog.  :)

icecube media

Hello,

Google SandBox = Old phrase/term.
It referred to sites that were "restricted" in some ways in performance, limiting their ability to do well i nteh SERPs for certain/all search terms etc.

It is Now a commonly mis-used term, as the SandBox effect that is referred to kind of disappeared sometime ago.

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Instead - you may find the following;
* New sites get a short period (honeymoon) were they are "boosted" to see how they do and to get some traffic etc.
* New sites loose the HMP after a time
* Poorly structured sites may have content that ranks well to begin with, then falls due to shoddy site structure (blogs).
* Some sites have "weak" content (tiny content, partially duplciated, very poor internal link structure etc.) and may be removed from SERPs
* Some sites have a variety of Internal Duplication (Canonical, Multiple URLs, Replicated page contents etc.) which may get Filtered.
* Some sites have External Duplicated content (full), which may be Filtered out (google only wants to show 1 version!)
* Sites that are Not popular (low Quality and low Quantity InBoundLinks, and/or links that appear False/Non-Volunteered) may perform poorly

Mixes of the above are often seen as "sandboxing" - they aren't - it just seems that people will believe anythign they read without checking the Age of what they read (seriously, reading SEO articles from 2005 is not going to help you all that much unless it poitns out Quality and Originality!)

harryjames

Google Sandbox is not a physical product but it just a effect which is done by Google. When any website doing over SEO optimization and submission on low quality websites. At that time Google penalized that spamming websites and remove and down every keywords of that websites from Google searches it means Google sent that website on Google Sandbox.

To check website is in sandbox or not, visit Google Sandbox Checker Tool:
pixelgroove dot com/serp/sandbox_checker/

Alex Thompson

Google Sandbox is a place where google put a new websites, or websites that have been penalized. It found that your website will not be ranking well for a period of time, or it will not be ranking at all until you are removed from the Sandbox.


bradely

As I know,Sandbox is one system made by Google to avoid spamming or black hat techniques. If your site is new and you are bombard of backlinks to get quick position on search engine,in this situation Google could place your website in sandbox. It would be good for us if we promote website in natural way.

AdamsonHebrew

New websites need to be analyzed by the Google. So it put them in to Google Sandbox by reducing their page rank  temporary. However web masters get back their page rank after few weeks after completion of analyze process.

PabsMary2

If your site is in Google Sandbox then ranking of your site would be decreased, you have to improve your site quality to get out of sandbox.

harryjames

Thanks for sharing meaning of Google Sandbox but Here I want to share tool which shows that website are in Sandbox or Not. Verify status of your website - http://pixelgroove.com/serp/sandbox_checker/

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