"Google Sandbox

[MakeS]

"This sandbox is just killing me... Does anyone actually know, if:
1. All sites get in it or not?
2. If not, then which do?
3. Or how to pass it?
"

[dcz]

The sandbox effect is something very difficult to detect.
Actually, many signs are showing us that such effect exists, but there does not seem to be any general rule.

What I observed my self is that Google needs some time to take new web-site into consideration. And this is very normal, just because the data centers needs to be updated to show new listings, the site crawled and cached to start showing up and this takes times.
Then, new domains seem to have to last a bit before they start being considered by Google (usually a month), but this depends a lot on the number and the quality of your backlinks.

Actually, the major proof sandbox exists is when a web site with thousands of backlinks right from the first online day is not crawled and cached as it should, at least compared to another web site, being as old with a lot fewer backlinks at first. This really mean the Google bot is waiting.


All together, this make the sandbox concept not that useful as it's hard to define and detect, and thus to circumvent.

To me, all is required to start a new domain is to start being online ASAP, even with a simple welcome html page and nothing more, while you're developing out of public eyes, and to post backlinks on a regular basis, once the site is, at least almost, ended.
We have to think about SEO as a time dependent phenomenon, thus dynamic. What we want is regular growth in everything. Steps are not very good, especially if those steps (in number of pages or backlinks) are followed by a pretty long inactivity.

What is for sure is Google is comparing every web-site's growth pattern to generic growth patterns of it's own, and what you want is to stay in your specific pattern.

For example, if you start posting 100 backlinks per day, for two weeks, and then nothing for the next two month, you'd probably better post 25 backlinks per day during those two month.

Same with content, regularity is essential.

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