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Have your blog or site been into Google Sandbox before?

Google Sandbox is basically a way Google penalize websites who try to manipulate search results by putting the site into a ‘Jail’ so that site won’t get any search engine traffic. This usually happens when the site owner build links too aggressively, unnaturally or whatever reasons.

Once your blog is ‘jailed’, it takes you 5-6 months to get it back on the search engine.

When this happens to you, what should you do?

These are my suggestions:

1. Continue Building Natural Links

When your blog is penalized, you can’t do anything much about it. Google own the search engine and you didn’t pay anything to Google to rank. There used to be a businessman who loses all his search engine traffic overnight. He has a company with a bunch of products waiting to sell in his warehouse. That’s the risk of relying on search engine traffic.

And when your blog is penalized, it will be back on the search engine after 5-6 months. Within this period, don’t give up on Blog SEO yet. Continue building one way links to your blog. Make it natural by using your main keyword, secondary keyword, url or “click here” to link to your blog. Grow 10-20 backlinks constantly everyday.

You won’t see results for 5-6 months. I think it doesn’t matter because when it’s out of the sandbox, you’ll see it ranking in the first page or #1 for your keywords.

2. Build Backlinks To Other Blog Posts

Usually Google will only penalize the webpage you build links too aggressively. It means that you’ll only get your “http://your-domain.com” page penalized and not other pages from your blog.

That means you can still rank for keywords with other pages from your blog. So, you start building links to other pages. You can choose a keyword which is simple to rank for and create a blog post which is optimized for that keyword and start building links for it. This will also bring you search engine traffic.

3. Other Traffic Strategies

Use article marketing, forum marketing and blog commenting to get traffic to your blog too. When you lose search engine traffic from Google, it is not the end of your world. You blog and business is still there. People can still visit your blog and buy from you. Use other traffic strategies as well.

Things will be fine even you lose search engine traffic. It’s not the only way to get traffic. Just do these 3 things when your blog is penalized. When everything is over, you’ll get many times more of traffic if you are persistent enough. Giving up will only waste your time, effort and hope.



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