Sandboxed by Google?
Diary of an SEO Campaign
Day 55.
It's a bad morning. The Big Story, the one that was going to jumpstart all those great in-bound links to The Site, has been delayed, for reasons unrelated to SEO, for at least a week. My p.c. suffered a brief power surge, and some really important emails sitting open in my in-box got fried for ever. And that's the good news. The bad news is that The Site more or less vaporized as far as Google Serps are concerned -- its tenuous grasp on a lowly ranking was prised away over the weekend, and it slid to oblivion for all but the most arcane search terms.
Hit the panic button. What could it be? Did I purchase too many site-wide text link ads? Did I wander into a bad neighborhood by mistake, and get mugged by blackhat spammers? Did I get sandboxed?
In my experience, it's impossible to know. I don't really believe that sandboxing exists. I did read a blog post over the weekend, that tried to prove (along with nifty charts and statistics) that sandboxing does exist, especially for competitive keywords. I was getting all excited reading these charts, until I realized that the blog in question has zero page rank and absolutely no backlinks! And I mean none. And I'm sitting here reading what the writer is saying about SEO and sandboxing? Yikes! I'm panicking again...
In the recesses of my memory, I do recall a phenomenon (or did I dream it) that new sites appear in the Serps for a while, then vanish inexplicably, only to reappear some time later, better-ranked than ever. Let it be so!
More tomorrow, and the next day...
Technorati Tags: online marketing, SEO, links, link building
online promotion, search engine optimization, website promotion, search marketing
Day 55.
It's a bad morning. The Big Story, the one that was going to jumpstart all those great in-bound links to The Site, has been delayed, for reasons unrelated to SEO, for at least a week. My p.c. suffered a brief power surge, and some really important emails sitting open in my in-box got fried for ever. And that's the good news. The bad news is that The Site more or less vaporized as far as Google Serps are concerned -- its tenuous grasp on a lowly ranking was prised away over the weekend, and it slid to oblivion for all but the most arcane search terms.
Hit the panic button. What could it be? Did I purchase too many site-wide text link ads? Did I wander into a bad neighborhood by mistake, and get mugged by blackhat spammers? Did I get sandboxed?
In my experience, it's impossible to know. I don't really believe that sandboxing exists. I did read a blog post over the weekend, that tried to prove (along with nifty charts and statistics) that sandboxing does exist, especially for competitive keywords. I was getting all excited reading these charts, until I realized that the blog in question has zero page rank and absolutely no backlinks! And I mean none. And I'm sitting here reading what the writer is saying about SEO and sandboxing? Yikes! I'm panicking again...
In the recesses of my memory, I do recall a phenomenon (or did I dream it) that new sites appear in the Serps for a while, then vanish inexplicably, only to reappear some time later, better-ranked than ever. Let it be so!
More tomorrow, and the next day...
Technorati Tags: online marketing, SEO, links, link building
online promotion, search engine optimization, website promotion, search marketing
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1 Comments:
Hi, owner of TheZenOfSeo here. The reason the blog has 0 backlinks and no Pagerank is because the blog itself is just 1 week old.
I also am intent in not going on any major link building campaign for this site, because I want to use this blog to experiment with more natural link-building.
Anyway, good luck with your blog. Will be bookmarking this one ^_^
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