Help! Sandbox Phenomena twice in 1 week!! ((

by marketpundit

Posted: 12 years ago 3 replies

Has any one come across or heard about this phenomena?
I have a website that was around for almost 8 years. SO, as you can appreciate - aged domain. For the past 3 years I have been doing some quality SEO work upon it. Achieved great results and held good positions with competitive keywords for a good year. Then, out of nowhere the site is sent to sand box. It stayed there until recently for almost 3 months. I did some minor link building while it was in the sand box but nothing major. It was released a week ago and went back to its original state. I enjoyed 1 week of good sales. However, 2 days ago I have realised that sales stopped again. when i checked the positions manually the site was nowhere to be found. So, I ran ranking report and the site is gone again. No positions are found just as it was when it went to the sand box. Anyone can suggest anything, or comment in this please. Your replies are greatly appreciated. cheers

#phenomena #sandbox #week

lexionar 12 years ago

I had my client's site that 12 years old, got slapped. If your site can still be found on google index, that means your site is just getting slapped by G. You need to slow down your backlink building if you do it too fast.

There is nothing we can do about it.
Maybe you can try this, download spyglass (its free or you can paid for full version) and analyze the backlinks that pointing to your site.

If there are some backlinks that not link back to your site, or the backlink is currently not accepting google crawls, you need to go to your webmaster and delete those links from within your google webmaster. You can search for this on G yourself.

And the rest are just the same old thing, continue with content building, backlink building, etc. Wait and cross your fingers...
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Do 12 years ago

If they are pretty new sites, it's normal. Wait a while, it'll be even stronger
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- eurekapsycrille 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Do
  
  If they are pretty new sites, it's normal. Wait a while, it'll be even stronger
  
  You're a horrible spammer man!!! Have you read the OP's post carefully?! He said his site was almost 8 years old. How on earth did you come up with that answer?!?!
  
  for marketpundit, I don't think it was your so-called "sandbox" that caused your site to fluctuate that hard. Recently Google has made some updates in their algorithm, I think it has something to do with the fluctuation of your site.
  
  Search quality highlights: 40 changes for February - Inside Search
  
  About that sandbox hmmmmm.....It's a long debate if I will make my stand about it....
  
  Google Sandbox
  
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