Ranking a New Site: Age-Rank Relationship

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Looking for input from those with experience. I have seen many people talking about the "google dance" and "sandbox" effect ceasing after 6-12 months of routine, responsible content/link building. I currently have a sight right around the 3.5 month mark with no end in site of this constant deindexing, jumping around, etc.

While I am sure there are many factors at play, including link velocity, types of links, whether white/black hat tactics are being used, and the type of competition you are up against, I am curious whether anyone has found a common thread.

I am about to begin a new campaign for some fairly low competition keywords with beatable top 10 for each. I do have exact match domains. Should I expect to be able to stay on the front page within the first few months, or will even these exact match low comp keywords take up to a year to settle out? (lets assume, as will be the case, that all backlinks built are done so at a reasonable rate, from a variety of sources, etc, etc, etc...)

Curious what anyone has to say...
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    Originally Posted by NoFluorescentLights View Post

    Looking for input from those with experience. I have seen many people talking about the "google dance" and "sandbox" effect ceasing after 6-12 months of routine, responsible content/link building. I currently have a sight right around the 3.5 month mark with no end in site of this constant deindexing, jumping around, etc.

    While I am sure there are many factors at play, including link velocity, types of links, whether white/black hat tactics are being used, and the type of competition you are up against, I am curious whether anyone has found a common thread.

    I am about to begin a new campaign for some fairly low competition keywords with beatable top 10 for each. I do have exact match domains. Should I expect to be able to stay on the front page within the first few months, or will even these exact match low comp keywords take up to a year to settle out? (lets assume, as will be the case, that all backlinks built are done so at a reasonable rate, from a variety of sources, etc, etc, etc...)

    Curious what anyone has to say...
    There are a lot of rumours going around and a lot of the blind leading the blind when it comes to the Google dance.

    One method that ALWAYS works for me when conquoring the G-Boogie is link velocity.. Once you build some strong, high PR backlinks, you will find that Google will start to give you some trust.

    My websites normally stop dancing around 3 months into the SEO strategy where they hold great rankings and continue to rise.

    It's all about creating good links in succession and building momentum.

    -Dave
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