There still is a lot of discussion going on wether the Google Sandbox exists or not. Some say it exists, some say it doesn't. Just pretend it does exist, how is it possible that some SEO's don't get hit by the sandbox filter?
First of all, let me explain to you what the Google sandbox is. The sandbox filter is a filter that Google uses on keywords with high search volume and high competition. The whole mindset of the filter is that new website go in some sort of quarantine so they don't rank high in the search engine result pages of Google. This quarantine could take from several months to a year. This was originally introduced to block out spam websites. Before the sandbox filter was born, as a spammer you could make a website, spam Google with it, get banned, and instantly make another website and get your original ranking in Google back again. But with another domainname. And because Google isn't really fast in giving penalties and bans it takes a couple of months before the new domains get caught. This was easy money making in those days! But not anymore, because now the Google Sandbox filter will solve the problem!
But that doesn't mean we're really stuck to that filter. We are optimizing for search engines, and the sandbox is part of that, so there is a solution.
Only new domains trigger the sandbox filter. So a solution may be to buy an old domain name, or if you already have one, use an old domain name. But this is often really expensive and it doesn't always fit your needs. But there is a solution for that: DeletedDomains.com. On this website are domains that come available the same day. Just search the age of some of the domains with the Archive.org wayback machine, and if you find an old domain, you can buy it at a hosting company for as little as 15 bucks. You can also take a look in Google to see if the website on the domain is still indexed in Google, that fastens up the process a bit. It doesn't matter what domain you choose, the only thing you have to do is to 301 redirect the domain to your main domain. Then you have to hope your old domain get's indexed again so Google will know that the domain moved permanently to the new location. This will give you all the linklove of the old domain and you get the age of that domain. So you can easily build your website and gain high rankings without any sandbox restrictions.
There is another way that I used. I had bought a domain, but didn't use it at the time I bought it. I had plans for it but for the future. So I put a page on the domain, with a few backlinks to get it indexed, and a year later I started using the domain for real. But I could begin right away because the domain was already a year old!
This last one isn't really a way to avoid the sandbox but it happens a lot that you buy domains to use in the future. It isn't hard to get like 20 backlinks to it just to be out of the sandbox at the time you really want to start your website.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
How To Avoid The Google Sandbox
The Big Myth About Making Money Blogging
I believe the biggest hype that people tend to believe that it is impossible to make money from blogs. To be very frank I thought so too when I first started.
Just to clear some thoughts out to you as I had couple of students asking about making money from blog. You have to understand that blogs are not products but is a tool you can use to sell your stuff.
In order for you to really profit from blogs , you seriously got to be very passionate about what you do. From 1st hand experience people will email about stuff you write about. If you can't answer them you are in deep trouble.
Here are four important tips to write on your blog:
1. Do not be afraid of grammar mistakes. Just write as if you are talking to a friend.
The more personal it is, there will be more readers that will feel what you trying to tell them.
2. Have a thought in your mind what you want your readers to do before you start writing.
Example if I wanted you to view a 1 hour movie on my blog I would just invite you as if I was talking to my close friends.
3. Know your target audience well by asking them questions on what they want. Based on that it's always good to just give what they want.
There will be a higher chance that they will buy something from you if it solves about 50% of their problems when you give them an offer.
4. Network or do reviews on other blogs and email them to inform that they were featured in your blog.
If the person is a new internet marketer, he will most likely be over delighted you featured about him or her.
If this article has help you in any way feel free to share your thoughts on my blog.
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