October 29, 2008 at 3:15 pm | Blog SEO
- Posted by Alex Liu |
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.
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October 11, 2008 at 8:14 am | Blog SEO, SEO Tricks
- Posted by Alex Liu |
Does Google Sandbox exist? Does Google penalize webpages which are trying to manipulate search results?
The answer is “Yes, for sure!” and it matters you if you are interested to get blog traffic!
Google has became a very popular search engine by providing accurate and relevant content to its users. Many people are using it to search different information with it. This has also attracted many businessman trying to manipulate Google’s search results to get free visitors.
To safeguard their business, Google take many actions to penalize websites which are trying to manipulate the search results. Google will not rank the site for any keywords within 6 months (or less). I’ve got my websites and blogs penalized many times and I’ve learn how to avoid these mistakes.
These are few ways they used to identify websites which are trying to manipulate the search results:
1. New Domain Name’s Backlinks
Google don’t simply trust new domain names. Just use common sense and think for a while “Is it possible that hundreds of websites link to a brand new website that is one month old everyday?”
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