My little Amazon money maker website got sandboxed

[kylegap]

Hi everyone,

I'll share with you one of my websites. I started it in January and started making money with it in february then made 15$ in march. April was beginning great and my traffic was inscreasing day to day and was reaching over 40 unique visitors on april 5th. Then yesterday, something happened. My website stopped ranking on the keywords it used to rank and I get no more traffic from google since yesterday.

I'm making a review website about kites and it's at this address: www.kitesreview.info

I used to include the Amazon description in my kites reviews which I think is the reason why it was sandboxed. I deleted all descriptions that wasn't wrote by me in all my articles.

I'd like to have some of you tell me what I could still be doing wrong and maybe you know others reasons my website would have been sandboxed.

Thanks everyone!

[TBInternetMarketing]

I just typed your domain name into Google and it returns your site. This means that your site is not sandboxed. It is probably just doing a dance. This is very common with new sites. I have a few doing this at the moment and all those sites are under 4 months old.

Don't worry too much about it. Just keep building good backlinks to it and in time you will be back.

[kylegap]

All right, thanks!!! Hope you are right! hehe! Anyway, I have a few new websites to start, I'm not giving up still!!

[Traffic Eagle]

It's a good site and I notice you have images and content text linked to amazon on your inner pages which is the right way to do it. You'll probably find that your site will jump back in time - you could do some press releases and linking from web2 sites and guest blogging which would help speed things up.

[shinsawa]

You can't check whether ur site being sandboxed or not by typing its domain name into google, IMHO.

Either you could type the kw's that usually get ranked in google and check if one of them is still in the serps.

If none of your kw's appear in serp you might experince sandbox or trustfilter or whatever it is.

The question is, do you build too many links?

I have also experienced this kind of situation too with one of my amazon site.

[ElectronPlumber]

I'm working on an FAQ that might help you here. Check out:

FAQ 8.1: PLEASE READ - Your Traffic Dropped and Your Site Was Buried/Deindexed/Sunk

Google HATES any duplicate content copied from the big shopping sites. If you had direct copies of Amazon reviews or product descriptions on your site, the Google ranking algorithm will eventually tank your site once you go some over some percentage of duplicate content.

Where is that line? Really hard to say. It's certainly more than 10% duplicate content but probably somewhere less than 75%. I've been thinking about running an experiment to test just how much duplicate content you can get away with on your site before getting slapped.

[shulink]

It could be the popular Google Dance. It happens pretty often with new sites. Your site will reappear again as long as you continue to build quality content and building quality backlinks. I never have any luck with amazon as their commission is too low.

[bigcat1967]

I just typed your domain name into Google and it returns your site. This means that your site is not sandboxed. It is probably just doing a dance. This is very common with new sites. I have a few doing this at the moment and all those sites are under 4 months old.

Don't worry too much about it. Just keep building good backlinks to it and in time you will be back.

Wrong! Just because you can type in a website by doing site:[domain name] and it shows up, doesn't mean it's sandboxed.

I'm thinking the reason why your site tanked was because it's pretty much an infant site (I'm thinking). How old is your site? If it is less than six months - than yes, it could have been sandboxed.

[Kenwa87]

Do a check with a rank checker to see where you are with your keywords. to early to tell but still might be the google dance.

[kylegap]

Wow thanks everyone for your words... As I said in my first post in the thread, I was adding the description from Amazon and it was copied... I did this with all my articles and sometimes I even copied some customer reviews. I think that may be the problem. I deleted all copied description in all my articles.

I've started the website in january so it's like 3 months old.

I haven't build any backlinks... I've checked with yahoo and it has 14 inlinks.

I just wanted to know if I was doing something wrong and now I can see I'm on the good path. I'll be building some new review websites and I wanted to see if I was wrong.

Thanks again to everyone replying to my thread!

Christian Galipeau

[mrfusion]

Originally Posted by ElectronPlumber

If you had direct copies of Amazon reviews or product descriptions on your site, the Google ranking algorithm will eventually tank your site once you go some over some percentage of duplicate content.

Where is that line? Really hard to say. It's certainly more than 10% duplicate content but probably somewhere less than 75%. I've been thinking about running an experiment to test just how much duplicate content you can get away with on your site before getting slapped.

Dead on there. I've got a website with tons of duplicate content but it started with tons of unique content. It has so much trust it ranks even for the duplicate stuff. Better to start your site with pure unique content, then add duplicate stuff once trust is earned.

[kylegap]

Originally Posted by shulink

It could be the popular Google Dance. It happens pretty often with new sites. Your site will reappear again as long as you continue to build quality content and building quality backlinks. I never have any luck with amazon as their commission is too low.

You have luck with what?