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Have I been sandboxed?

by TomBuck
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I promote a hubpage and a video and for the 2 keywords I was aiming for the video is second for 1 and 6th for the other whereas the hubpage has just gone completely?

Is this sandboxing? I have heard about it but don't really know what it is?

Any advise is good.
#sandboxed
  • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
    Tom,

    Keep in mind Google will serve up 'personalized' results which tend to make the websites you've already visited rise to the top of the serps. Not saying that is the case here, but you may want to check through a proxy or have a friend in a different area check your keywords.

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  • Profile picture of the author JohnHuizinga
    I think Google has doing some strange stuff lately. I'm very curious as to what's going on and whether it's temporary or permanent
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  • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
    Aww... Its not the recent visited or that, I know what you are on about. Its not that. But remember someone saying that sometimes your result can just disseappear for a couple of days.
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  • Profile picture of the author OpticalOut
    You could look back a year ago or two years ago and you'd see people worried about Google changing things for the worse.

    Chances are that your site is jumping around because of some backlinking that you've done recently.

    Did you check it with a rank tracker like Market Samurai and see what the exact position is? It would be interesting to see if you are completely gone within the top 1000 pages or if you dropped somewhere in there.
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  • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
    Its not very competitive and I did do loads of SEO yesturday. Would it be completely gone?
    Will it come back? How long?

    Stupid google.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnHuizinga
    Have you tried this?

    Go to google. In the searchbox enter:
    site:hubpages.com/hub/Your-Hubpage-Here
    using the link to your own hubpage of course (no h t t p : / /)

    If you get no results, your hubpage has been deindexed. It may be temporary, it may be permanent.

    If it is deindexed and doesn't come back in a couple of weeks, try making major changes to it so Google sees it as a new page and see if that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
      Originally Posted by JohnHuizinga View Post

      Have you tried this?

      Go to google. In the searchbox enter:

      using the link to your own hubpage of course (no h t t p : / /)

      If you get no results, your hubpage has been deindexed. It may be temporary, it may be permanent.

      If it is deindexed and doesn't come back in a couple of weeks, try making major changes to it so Google sees it as a new page and see if that helps.
      Thanks I tried this and it came up, but when I type my keywords into google I am no where to be seen.??? Any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnHuizinga
    Honestly, not really. Google works in mysterious ways.

    You could try building (more/fresh) backlinks to it. I can't tell you whether it would work or not.
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