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Stuck in the Google Sandbox or Delisted?I've been running my new weblog -- blog.getyouhealthy.com -- for a few months now and as far as I can tell Google still hasn't stopped by to visit my site or index me. I've heard about something called a "sandbox" but I don't know what that is and whether I'm in it. If I am, how do I get out of it? If not, why else might I be missing from Google? First off, let's start out with a definition. The sandbox is where Google puts new Web sites for anywhere from a week to three months or longer. The intent is to avoid having new sites pop up out of nowhere to be top o' the page results for a specific search. It's one way that Google maximizes the quality of its SERP (search engine result pages). For people building a new site, however, this is a real drag. Buy a domain name, build a nice site, get a bunch of inbound links from other sites, and you could still be "stuck in the sandbox" for months, waiting to gain a good position in the search results. Further, I have a niggling suspicion that your stay in the sandbox might be longer than normal because of the space that you're in. No proof, but I just wonder if Google doesn't leave people in the sandbox for longer if the site is focused on topics that are commonly considered "spammy". It's also curious that a search on Google for site:getyouhealthy.com returns no results at all, which suggests that either Google's never visited your blog or that there's a problem that has caused Google to delist you from its database. Any of the following could be hurting you significantly: • hidden text or hidden links. If you are in the sandbox, well, as far as I know, there's really nothing you can do to speed up your escape. Just keep plugging away writing blog entries, and know that sooner or later you'll be on the other side of that wall. If you have been delisted from Google, however, then you need to figure out why that's happened, fix it, then find someone at Google you can talk to so you can have them reevaluate your site and hopefully relist you in the database. Start that process by exploring their information on pages vanishing from Google. Good luck if that is indeed the problem. You might also want to read this related article: Paid for SEO, still have PageRank 0? Good luck!
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Tagged: Previous: Leaky RAM is ruining my PC? Next: Where can I find Neopet Guild Layouts? Reader Comments To Date: 4John said, on May 9, 2006 1:14 PM:
Hi Dave Juliet said, on January 27, 2007 6:18 AM:
You have a cool website, but on the neopets layouts there isn't any code to copy. verna said, on September 10, 2010 7:30 AM:
Hi, I have the same problem, I've been ranking number 20 after about 2 weeks but yesterday when new backlinks showed up, my site was delisted :( and I didn't even spam
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From an SEO: I was curious, so I checked it out. You are not being what is percieved as sandboxed because you don't even come up in a search for your own site. Even sites that are being delayed come up in direct searches for your site.
Instead, your problem is internal. It might be your load time, which is really long. Dig around, check your htaccess file for strange redirects, make sure you have a robots file, don't employ on-page redirects, make sure you're not putting a cookie on your home page and you should be able to get indexed.