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Google putting legitimate new sites in the sandbox is hurtful to the industry
Having to explain to clients that new sites may have to wait 3 months or more before the sandbox is removed is crazy
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Can you explain the sandbox, and the evidence for it?
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I recently launched a site and its ranking. I didn’t experience this. Or are you suggesting that my rankings may improve once the sandbox time has passed?
Brightonbitesback.com if you want to check etc
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I don’t know. I launched a new website with 39 pages on July 2, and all are indexed and all rank on page one or two. Domain isn’t yet 60 days old.
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How would Google know which sites are legitimate?
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It’s a boom for the PPC sector. Some businesses can’t afford to be invisible for up to 3 months when early sales and immediate positive ROAS is needed
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It’s probably because you’re a content, MFA (made for advertising) website. Pretty sure there’s a website identifier for that, will check the leaks again later
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We have some websites that never* make it to Google Search despite having good content, written by humans, fresh (news) and everything. While others are rocking it on Discover (6000/+ 30 minute concurrent viewers).
* after 6 months or a year
Dependence on Google is a plague.
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Its always been there. But I’ve always though you could accelerate it or mitigate against the impact. QQ : what have you done to grow it?
I routinely start new sites and I overcome sandboxing by putting up a holding page while people squabble over the logo and colors and inconsequential stuff (not kidding – humans develop new logo devices/symbols everyday, the amount of money spent on arbitrarily “perfecting” it is extremely wasteful – I know companies putting $100k to $1m over budget on this and then have less to spend on getting eyeballs- this is crazy)
But that aside – lets assume we don’t all share the same definition for what sandboxing means – what effect does it have to you? To me it means waiting 3-4 days to get new pages indexed at the very start for the first 3-4 weeks and some slow refreshing and oscillating between page 1 and 8 for the home page for the first 48-56 hours.
Also, what do you need your client to see? Like I always setup a YT, LI, LI Showcase pages, twitter and then accelerate high-trust sites like BBB, ad put up video. A Google My Business Page really helps make it look complete.
Rank by Proxy is amazing for “Show & tell” – like it gives good slides for the internal marketing campaign, often the most important work you can do as a marketing team, inside & outside.
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So how come I have new sites seeing search volume within a couple of weeks of publication? The effect can’t be applied equally.
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I am in a super competitive space, less than 80 days old, and getting ~100-200 clicks a day. It is a good start.
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Done with google
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My website https://borncrisis.com showed up indexed on Google 2 days after it was created. I only made the website 11 days ago. Some things are still showing up — currently only 3 of my 6 blog posts are searchable by Google. No long-tail keywords really; it’s just another t-shirt store. But I don’t think that “new sites are being sandboxed”.
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I have built three service industry websites in the past 3 months. No real backlinking except to each other. I have seen a steady increase in traffic.
This one less than 2 months old. Construction Company in a major city with 5 sub cities and 45 Pages. 1.78k impressions since may 19th. Going from 20 to 100 impressions per day. Average position up to 12 across all pages.
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