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Google's sandbox is a relatively new filter that appeared to be put in place back in March of 2004. This happened after the widely publicized updates of Austin and Florida, and the implementation of what is known as the Austin update. If you are not sure what those are, there is no need to worry as those updates are now for the most part in the past. The sandbox filter seems to affect nearly all new websites placing them on an initial "probation" status. The effect of this is that new websites may get into Google's SERP's (search engine results pages) relatively quickly and may even perform well for a couple of weeks. When the filter is applied to the new website it is referred to as being put in the "sandbox". The new website will still show in the result pages, but it will not rank well regardless of how much original, well optimized content and regardless of how many quality inbound links the site may have. The filter restrains new websites from having immediate success in the search engine result pages.

If you manage to get a few links from trusted sites you'll always skip the sandbox

Elquicos wrote:If you manage to get a few links from trusted sites you'll always skip the sandbox

True, I agree.. For you to able to be able to get out on the sandbox quickly, you should gain trusted links and avoid reasons of getting into sandbox.

hey weblaunchphxx! Where'd you get those? Do you encounter site having problem with regards to google sandbox as of today?

dee_el07 wrote:hey weblaunchphxx! Where'd you get those? Do you encounter site having problem with regards to google sandbox as of today?

He got those information from his research... What do you think?

Here's my information regarding sandbox:

What is the Google Sandbox?

The Google Sandbox is an alleged filter placed on new websites. The result is that a site does not receive good rankings for its most important keywords and keyword phrases. Even with good content, abundant incoming links and strong Google PageRank, a site is still adversely affected by the Sandbox effect. The Sandbox acts as a de facto probation for sites, possibly to discourage spam sites from rising quickly, getting banned, and repeating the process.

The Google Sandbox is very similar to a new website being placed on probation, and kept lower than expected in searches, prior to being given full value for its incoming links and content.

cooluks wrote:

dee_el07 wrote:hey weblaunchphxx! Where'd you get those? Do you encounter site having problem with regards to google sandbox as of today?

He got those information from his research... What do you think?

Here's my information regarding sandbox:

I wonder if you read his post.. Anyway, those articles are good.. But is it updated? hmmm.. oh well, as of now haven't encounter nor read about google sandbox problems..

Sandbox is for myself old news. In my opinion sandbox for brand new sites is about 6-9 months.
It does not mean that you are unfindable on SE but that filter has been apply and you will have much more lower SERP than usually.