is my site SANDBOXED?!

by Online Business Mentor

Posted: 14 years ago 20 replies

Hey guys

i am totally panicking...well concerned lol

i used to have a site that ranked VERY WELL for atleast 3 keywords related to the niche and business i was promoting

im talking postion 1-.3 between them

now all of a sudden the sites totally dissapeared!?

how do i know if its sandbixed..or can anyone tell?

the link is Primo Vacations Club Review. Primo Vacations Review – The Premier Travel Club With Top UK & Global Mentor Waseem Mirza

(shared for reference purpose) and sorry if am breaking any rules here guys...but its genuine need of help as i cant find it in the search engines anymore

#sandboxed #site

ArticlePrince 14 years ago

Sometimes this happens for a few days when a human at Google reviews your site... just a few days and see if it gets fixed.
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- Online Business Mentor 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ArticlePrince
  
  Sometimes this happens for a few days when a human at Google reviews your site... just a few days and see if it gets fixed.
  
  interesting...thanks for the feedback!
  
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- cbpayne 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ArticlePrince
  
  Sometimes this happens for a few days when a human at Google reviews your site...
  
  No it doesn't. You are making this up.
  
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abednego 14 years ago

Which keywords were you testing?

You're still listed in google for "primo vacations", but it looks like you were bumped to page 2...
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bgmacaw

14 years ago

You're on page 2 for "Primo Vacations Club Review", "Primo Vacations Club" and "Primo Vacations" and the competition seems rather stiff for those keywords. You aren't 'sandboxed', it's that you're simply going to need more better links to move back onto page one.

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Online Business Mentor

14 years ago

i typed in my full url and it didnt come up...

i was no.2 for 'primo vacations' on google.com like yesterday!...wtf? :confused:

now am not sandboxed but gone down the serps..soooo odd

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Online Business Mentor

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Online Business Mentor

i typed in my full url and it didnt come up...

i was no.2 for 'primo vacations' on google.com like yesterday!...wtf? :confused:

now am not sandboxed but gone down the serps..soooo odd

that was yesterday and the good few months before that

i was no.1 for

primo vacations club
primo vacations club review

no.2 for

primo vacations
primo vacations review

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HCLee 14 years ago

Is your site new (less than 6 months) and were you doing more link building than before. If yes it could be the Google dance because it usually happens for new sites doing too much backlink building.
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va_mom 14 years ago

That happened to me also... sometimes it will disappear and will reappear with a bang - higher ranks. But sad to say, there are times, it will be lower.

Just continue building links though... :-)
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dreamer31 14 years ago

Same case happened to me last week,it took eight days to ask me back into the game. I advise patience and more link building.
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- simpleonline1234 14 years ago
  
  Don't fret...your site is most likely doing the Google dance. This happens from time to time with newer sites and even sometimes older sites. Google is just moving thing around and digesting your backlinks, etc.
  
  Give it a week and see where you end up....I've had a site move from page 3 to page 1 after a dance....as your site gains more age it will not dance as much as in the early stages.
  
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Crew Chief

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Online Business Mentor

Hey guys

i am totally panicking...well concerned lol

i used to have a site that ranked VERY WELL for atleast 3 keywords related to the niche and business i was promoting

im talking postion 1-.3 between them

now all of a sudden the sites totally dissapeared!?

how do i know if its sandbixed..or can anyone tell?

the link is Primo Vacations Club Review. Primo Vacations Review - The Premier Travel Club With Top UK & Global Mentor Waseem Mirza

(shared for reference purpose) and sorry if am breaking any rules here guys...but its genuine need of help as i cant find it in the search engines anymore

To answer your question, "is my site SANDBOXED?!" The answer is "NO!" Just rest at ease and keep building BLs. Also, may I advise you NEVER to post keywords you are targeting on ANY open forum, including the WF.

About three months ago, there was a WF member who had started making sales in a niche that paid handsomely. He was so excited that he posted a thread about his success with the info about the niche and the next thing he knew, BAM! He had drawn a slew of new gung ho competitors.

It's easy to state your situation/dilemma/question without opening up the vault for all to see. If you have to, PM people you can trust, but do yourself a favor and don't give away your golden nuggets!

Giles, the Crew Chief

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Online Business Mentor

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

About three months ago, there was a WF member who had started making sales in a niche that paid handsomely. He was so excited that he posted a thread about his success with the info about the niche and the next thing he knew, BAM! He had drawn a slew of new gung ho competitors.

It's easy to state your situation/dilemma/question without opening up the vault for all to see. If you have to, PM people you can trust, but do yourself a favor and don't give away your golden nuggets!

Giles, the Crew Chief

damn that sucks! true,..true! i think in my niche it takes a lot of personal branding to do well as well vs just achieveing top ranks...but you make a fair point

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Online Business Mentor 14 years ago

UPDATE: ok guys since opening this thread i'd thought id update everyone on whats happen since and thanks again for everyones replies and even some personal pms..you guys are an awesome help!

my sites somehow came back to original postions..so perhaps the google dance or perhaps something else? ,...strange

one thing i did notice however my rank in google.co.uk did drop 4 places vs google.com where it stayed normal

but phew! back to normal...
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Neodism

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Online Business Mentor

Hey guys

i am totally panicking...well concerned lol

i used to have a site that ranked VERY WELL for atleast 3 keywords related to the niche and business i was promoting

im talking postion 1-.3 between them

now all of a sudden the sites totally dissapeared!?

how do i know if its sandbixed..or can anyone tell?

the link is Primo Vacations Club Review. Primo Vacations Review - The Premier Travel Club With Top UK & Global Mentor Waseem Mirza

(shared for reference purpose) and sorry if am breaking any rules here guys...but its genuine need of help as i cant find it in the search engines anymore

Google could have just been dancing and that's why you hit the top rankings.

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herbal 14 years ago

I think it will come up again..But you have to take some extra effort in building quality backlinks....

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- moneymakingwiz 14 years ago
  
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Groovystar 14 years ago

My "competitors" NEVER frequent IM sites. It's just not a lucrative or competitive niche as there are only a handful of decently sized sites about it and it is a fan genre. Suffice it to say virtually none of the forums in our genre know what SEO even is and many of them actually want to stay small hobby sites and NOT show up in SERPs because they consider the typical player signing up by way of finding them on google, to be poor quality players. Most of them find their members through link and advertisement exchanges with other Warriors RPG sites.

It's weird to step in here on a forum like this, it's a whole nother world.

...If your site goes form page 1 to page 2 I don't think that is the sandbox I think that is just an algorithmic change affecting your placement. I'd just keep on optimising.
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Reverb 14 years ago

I have two sites that I started earlier this year. They have been going from the first page of Google to "neverland", back and forth (though not necessarily at the same time), since late April. Right now they are both back in the top 10. Hopefully they'll stay there finally.
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- Online Business Mentor 14 years ago
  
  thanks everyone for your isnight and feedback
  
  heres yet another update
  
  so in my last reply i said everythings back to normal..but now my site has dissapeared YET AGAIN!...argh!
  
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