Three Months in the SandBox - WHAT SHOULD I DO???

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Maybe you can try a reconsideration request as well. 18 months - that is 1.5 years!!! - I guess you have nothing to lose with a reconsideration request.

kryseo said:
My site got sandbox for about 18 months now all the way since July 2009. Till now, I have been building backlinks (outsource the link building)

It is perculiar as it will come back to page 4/5 for a few days and disappear to nowhere for a couple of months before appearing again for a few days...ie. on and off. Before the site got sandboxed, I was on page 1 at #6 or #7 position. Got greedy and went for Xrummer blast direct to the site.

It has been sandbox till now......:(
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remove the link wheel, social bookmark, and keep white hat links building, you'll get back on your feet. Social bookmark everything to get that popularity back in google's eyes (I'd suggest digg as it's hard to spam and google loves it, even if it's nofollow - did a case study on that).
 
i have 1 site in sandbox, cuz a friend who got greedy, stole it from my ftp, put it online 2 days after i created the site (& told him i made nice cash in the first few days). I didnt expect he would rip my ftp, and put an exact 1-on-1 copy on a domain which is the same name but other TLD.

I already got him to remove the content after some verbal exchange, but the thing is I used to have 30-60 uniques per day without any SEO for the first few days & it naturally ranked well in G, but after the trick he pulled on me I have 0 visitors. Furthermore, on the low competition KW i am now nowhere in the top 50.

So, what can I best do to get out of this mess?
 
You know what I really hate? It's these dumb asses who list "pray to god" as a SEO tip. GTFU.

OP - You need authority links. They will pull you out of the sandbox. Massive numbers of crappy profile links will not help. One really good link can do it. Buy a few good ones.
 
accelerator_dd said:
remove the link wheel, social bookmark, and keep white hat links building, you'll get back on your feet. Social bookmark everything to get that popularity back in google's eyes (I'd suggest digg as it's hard to spam and google loves it, even if it's nofollow - did a case study on that).
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I have pretty much done all of this. Maybe I will try to bookmark some inner pages as well.
 
I have had to deal with numerous sandbox's longer than yours, I recently found a way to get out of them, fight fire with fire. You need REAL high quality backlinks from sites that are in your industry that has got me out of many sandbox's.
 
Just a quick update on those who might be interested in how this thread works out. After about 6 1/2 months, almost all my site's pages have been upgraded to PR2. But, my site is still well sandboxed, always showing up in bad positions like 650 or something like that.

I have sent in a google reconsideration request about a couple of weeks ago. Will post back when they respond or when something else happens to my site.
 
Ramsweb said:
Just a quick update on those who might be interested in how this thread works out. After about 6 1/2 months, almost all my site's pages have been upgraded to PR2. But, my site is still well sandboxed, always showing up in bad positions like 650 or something like that.

I have sent in a google reconsideration request about a couple of weeks ago. Will post back when they respond or when something else happens to my site.
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Thank you. Please do keep us informed. I am undergoing my first sandbox experience and I don't like it one bit.
 
I know I am bumping my old thread but I thought I will update whoever followed this thread. It has been 7 months since I got the sandbox slap for creating an obvious linkwheel. Since the sandbox happened, I have removed my link wheel, built quality links to my site and have also added more content on a periodic basis. I also filed a reconsideration request with Google.

Something interesting happened yesterday. A couple of my inner pages that were ranking in the 600 range got a huge boost and shot up to 50. I guess the inner pages got released from the Sandbox for some reason. Home page is still stuck. I am just hoping that the homepage will be released too.

Will update if it happens.

Thanks
Ramsweb
 
The sandbox is as real as Santa Claus. Just work on good content and good links, and the rest will take of itself.
 
I still haven't got of the sanbox with this site? I am thinking about doing a Article Marketing Robot blast. I am wondering if it will help or bury my site for good? Any thoughts?
 
You Bastards at Google - :rant:9 months in the sandbox now. All my inner pages have got page rank 2, up from 0. Some of my keywords have been released from the 650's range to the 200's range but the URL for the mail keywords is still in the sandbox. I have added content, removed link wheel, submitted reconsideration request, added backlinks with content in the form of articles and even backlinked those articles heavily. Not sure what else I can do.
 
Did you build backlinks consistently since the penalty started? Did you add more content?
 
MandLoys said:
Did you build backlinks consistently since the penalty started? Did you add more content?
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Yes, I added backlinks consistently and also updated my content on a regular basis. What baffles me is that Google upped the page rank on almost all my inner pages from 0 - 2 since i hit the sandbox.
 
9 months in the sandbox now. My site came out of the sandbox for a period of 24 hours and now it has disappeared again. I was on page 1 for 1 day, very happy that the sandbox was finally over. But, it has gone back like before.

Has anyone seen this happen to them?
 
Ramsweb said:
9 months in the sandbox now. My site came out of the sandbox for a period of 24 hours and now it has disappeared again. I was on page 1 for 1 day, very happy that the sandbox was finally over. But, it has gone back like before.

Has anyone seen this happen to them?
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I had a 3 year old site 6 months in the sandbox and here is what i did to get it out:

my site was indexed and had links built to it without the 'www', so hxxp://mydomain.org.

What i did was set the site to use the 'www'. So changed the site to hxxp://www.mydomain.org and after a few days my site was back from 700+ to number 22.

Basically negating the effect of most of the backlinks and enable me to start again and this time build the links carefully. I would rather have a starting position of no.22 and know now to build pyramids and buffer sites and blast away at those and not directly to my money site.

YOu may or may not want to do this depending on how much the exisiting back links are worth against waiting for who knows how long for your site to get out of the sandbox.

5 other sites i had in the sandbox i got out by building more links but using as much as 20 related keywords instead of 2 or 3 i was using. i also built some web 2.0 sites and blasted those with a wide variety of backlinks and they all came out of the sandbox in a matter of weeks.

So while previously having 7 sites in the sandbox i now have zero in sandbox. :)
 
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You are not in the sandbox as you have pages within your site ranked and indexed.
Sandbox is when a whole site is deindexed.

Not ranking for your main keywords is a complete different thing then being sandboxed and should be aproached differently.
 
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