Too many backlinks to soon = Google Sandbox?

If you search "sandbox" on the forum, you'll see a lot of discussion on this and varying opinions. Was your site previously on google and now cannot be found or was it never indexed yet? Also, how old was the blog when you did this? I've never seen a "sandbox" effect with anything I've done so I don't really know if that's something that actually happens but know that you can go up and down in google lots for a variety of reasons. Just not sure if you're saying it was there and now its gone or what.

It's simple ...

Sandbox or not - too many new backlinks showing up all at once says SPAM to Mother Google.

And the mystery continues...

It's like that question - "How many licks does it take to get to the center of Tootsie Pop?"

"The world may never know."

It may just be the google dance. Check in another few days or even a week and your site will be back up on google. Just keep building backlinks to your site and dont worry

I really think all of what we call the sandbox is just a filter google has to weed out the spam sites. If you get quality links vs just social links etc, you will find that you will be out of the sandbox in no time. Focusing on relevant links vs random links will help keep you out of the box and will improve your overall rankings.

Here's what I get from my experiences and test:

TOO many backlinks will not get your site sandbox-ed immediately if your topic of your website is related to certain trend.

You will only get sandbox-ed when you have a gazillion links linking to your site in a day from a topic that Google knows isn't hot.

For example, if your site is about how to tie a bowtie and then you get like 10k links in day, your site might get sandbox-ed.

However, if your topic is something like "John Terry's scandal", "Haiti", "Desmond Ong is freaking awesome"...your site should not be sandbox-ed.

It really depends on the trend of your topic.

PS: I know some people are going to hit me back on this...so I just want to say that this is "from my experiences" and I don't own Google...so I don't know. :-)

*looks for video of scene of bald boy bending metal spoon from The Matrix*

The information in this thread is so wrong that it is really sick .. Does anybody ever understand what marketing really is ???

You can build 10,000 links in one day and no you will not get hurt by no stupid google.

You want proof ??

Good then do a true test .. Instead of just spamming a bunch of sites to try and prove you can get sandboxed (which is a myth) why not do some real marketing and prove it.

Step #1

Have a writer create a proper press release for you. Now go to PRWeb Press Release Distribution Increases Online Visibility and Web Traffic and pay the $300 for the highest Press Release coverage and Options. Add teh press release and all the goodies and seo and etc..

Step #2

Take an article based on the same as the press release targeting the same website. Go buy some lame auto submit software and blast the heck out of it to 1,000 article directories.

Step #3

Take the same exact site and submit the rss feed for that site to at least 50 rss feed directories. This can be done manually in a few hours easily since you are submitting 1 rss feed.

Step #4

Get you bookmarking accounts ready or go buy some lame bookmarking software. Create your title based on your keywords only (in other words this is your anchor text), create your description and add yourdomain.com in the description. Add your keywords you are targeted for this same domain that you did in step 1, 2, and 3. Now submit your bookmark to at least 500 places even if you need to create several accounts.

Step #5

Take your bookmark profiles and rss feeds from your bookmark profile and ping them, while you at it ping your articles that you submitted to the article directories.

All of this can be done in one day and yes it will create 1,000's of backlinks and you will not be punished by google at all... If your time is limited then take 2 days to do it but fact is it can be done in 1 day if you decide to take action and focus.

What you will end up with is great listings and some nice traffic. Notice I did not say anything about spamming web 2.0 sites or spamming blogs with spam comments.

How do I know the above works, because I do it and if it was true about google spanking you like a red headed step child all my sites would be kicked out of google. Fact is I get some pretty nice traffic and that traffic is growing day by day.

The above is what "MARKETING" is ...

James

Disclaimer: I am assuming you know what SEO is and How to do proper keyword research

I don't understand how people get such crazy perspectives on this.

As James said - getting a lot of links quickly is exactly what a normal successful business would do - press releases, publicated articles, partners linking to them - this is normal marketing and not inherently a bad thing - in fact, it's a good thing.

However, the statements people make as fact about it not being possible to get a site penalised - are also not true and just what they 'think' and I've found ways that don't agree with that.

So - my advice is - Focus on non-spammy marketing methods and you can get all the links you want. If you blast bookmarks at an otherwise unlinked site and you keep doing it from the same accounts - well, you may find yourself with different results.

Andy

You can't get banned by bookmarking a blog post, even if you do it a few hundred times. Your site will come back, stop worrying about it...

Google has very weird ways of doing things and new sites come & go from their SERPs. Give it a few months, you'll be cooL!

If the Google "too many backlinks built in so little time" penalty were true, then:

---> I can create software which can automatically build thousands of backlinks for my competitors in say 2 hours, so I'd be nuking competitors while sleeping.

If the Google "spam backlinks and spam backlink places" penalty were true, then:

---> I'd add this function to the software above = create gibberish content + add spammy statements + focus on spammy sites and link farms for the software to be more effective in nuking my competitors while I'm at the beach with my family.

If the Google "duplicate content" penalty were true, then:

---> I'd create a software which can (1) monitor if new content is added to the sites of my competitors, (2) determine if new content has been indexed by SEs or otherwise, (3) take unindexed new content from sites of my competitors, (4) create email accounts then high PR community site accounts, and (5) publish exact unindexed content from competitors as profile pages on those high PR Web 2.0 sites (these sites are indexed regularly) to nuke my competitors while I'm watching TV.

Backlinks are really a necessary to got a good rank in google page rank & the dofollow forum got good rank then always follow dofollow forum.

I started a new blog a couple of weeks ago. Did the social bookmarking and about 100 back links. Now I am seeing google traffic. Go figure

I am currently back linking for my business web site and i have had concerns regarding the sandbox or google slap!!!

The Google works in mysterious ways, but one thing I can say confidently from experience is that it seems to prefer quality over quantity a lot of times, and if the quality is good, quantity won't hurt.

Andy, James and Marx are dead on...

Just don't believe the hype...Your site should come back

Gavin

I have no idea why people do crazy about Google like this.

Don't you think something amazing will get thousands of backlinks in a matter of hours and all the popular stuff on the internet gets shared on social networking sites.

For example, a website was providing free Saints Jerseys on Superbowl Sunday. Wouldn't it get bookmarked by everyone and wouldn't it get shared on Digg, Propeller, twitter etc. And not to mention all the reviews they will get on people's blogs. Does that mean Google will penalize the site.

Google doesn't love to de-index and penalize sites, they just want to make things better for their users. Just don't make it too complicated and don't make assumption on only one experiment. Experiment this about 10 times and then wait for some time. Then based on the results, draw your conclusions.

While the sandbox itself is undeniable crap, there are a few things to note.

In my experience if you build a huge amount of back links fast you will cause a larger Google dance.

The bigger the surge in back links the bigger the dance.....however you certainly aren't hurting your website in anyway.

Consider when Obama became president and the first big blogs got in on the Google trend, and were added as the examples under Google's "hot topic."

The blogs listed under the "hot topics" where getting links incredibly fast and were very new. They very quickly appeared at the top of the search results and didn't disappear instantly into obscurity due to being linked to.

I do advise against creating back links through one method alone using only one anchor text term though, as this looks obviously fake.

I have noticed the time it takes for Google to finish its dance seems to match the searches. Example:huge searches = very short dance, and low searches = one week wait.