Google Sandbox..

If it's the site in your sig, yes, it isn't indexed yet. It's relatively new and financial keyword domains tend to be slow indexing. You'll need to get some additional links, such as your sig here, and it should get indexed soon enough.

Google Sandbox is the term used to refer to Google's testing environment for developers testing Google Checkout service and there is also a iGoogle Sandbox for testing.

What you seem to be asking about is what is often referred to as the "Sandbox Effect". The "Sandbox Effect" is simply the result of Google applying the principle of ranking pages that have stood the test of time higher because they have earned a degree of trust.

It is not a place your website goes nor a penalty. There is nothing you can do to cause it, so there is nothing you need to do to avoid it. Maintaining your web pages and promotional efforts over a period of time is the only way to overcome it.

@HigherPrThanGod,

Google ranks your web page in the SERP based on relevance, not the number of backlinks. You could have a million backlinks and not rank for terms that aren't relevant to your backlinks or page content.

Your backlinks are important in how they influence your relevancy score. 77 backlinks that don't improve your relevancy score have the same effect as no backlinks at all. Learn how to use backlinks to improve your relevancy if you want to use them to improve your SERP rankings.

sorry, that's not right. Sandbox is a ranking penalty, you would find your site in SERPs, but way behind. If its not in the index its not sandboxed, but simply not indexed or de-indexed.

Hi theunknownthem,

I assume that when you say "website" you are referring to the backlink, which is madeup of two parts, the URL and the anchortext. It varies based on the blog platform. You need to place your web page URL in the "website box", this could be any page on your website that you happen to be promoting.

If you want any ranking benefit, then you need to make your backlink relevant to your targeted keyword. The best way to do this is by having the anchortext include your targeted keyword term. Keep in mind that most blog platforms use the "nofollow" attribute on links in blog comments, which removes all SEO value.

When you ask if irrelevant backlinks count, yes they count as backlinks, they may count towards your PR score, they just don't help you rank for your targeted keyword. Irrelevant backlinks have very little value since the do virtually nothing to help you get traffic to your web pages. You can use them as part of a more sophisticated strategy, but you must execute that strategy properly to see any real benefit.

Google has thousands of databases and they don't all get updated with the same data at the same time. Therefore, when a site or page is first indexed, it may not always show up in results because of the databases selected out of the 'cloud' to feed the query.

BTW, the site in question, assuming it's the one in the OP's sig, is now showing 258 pages indexed in Google.