Backlink advice

Jave said:

Hello Guys,

so my current site launched in the end of april and I've written over 100 aritcles. I'm getting around 50-100 daily visitors over long-tail keywords right now. I already started building some backlinks (more or less quality ones) but I'm wondering if i should continue.

Is it safe tho the site is still really fresh? I can definitely feel that I'm still in sandbox becauce the traffic is coming mostly over long-tail as i said and not the big ones i try to target (competetion not thaaat strong depending on keyword).

On the other hand I think like it shouldn't be a problem because i get 1500 - 3000 visitors per month already so it doesn't look that unnatural to gain backlinks that early.

Also at what point (weeks / months) would these backlinks would start to fire if one can assume i'm still in sandbox phase?

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Jave said:

I can definitely feel that I'm still in sandbox becauce the traffic is coming mostly over long-tail

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Jave said:

On the other hand I think like it shouldn't be a problem because i get 1500 - 3000 visitors per month already so it doesn't look that unnatural to gain backlinks that early.

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Jave said:

Also at what point (weeks / months) would these backlinks would start to fire if one can assume i'm still in sandbox phase?

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tazarbm said:

how can you still be sandboxed when you're already getting traffic? Some of you, people, don't even know what sandboxing means, so let me explain this rather simple notion in even more basic terms...

Do you know that rectangular box, full of sand in which toddlers play with their little shovel to create whatever they want? That's a sandbox, that's the entire world for those little kids, they can do whatever they want in that sandbox without bothering anyone from outside, or others bothering them.

THAT is a sandbox, and in the SEO world sandbox means that your website is yours to play with however you like without anyone noticing, or without your site influencing anybody else (ie. the google rankings) even though the site is live.

In other words, you have a live, fully working website, that you've published content on, built backlinks to, you've done everything by the book of SEO and yet, you're not ranking anywhere because you're.... well... sandboxed. That's what the google sandbox is all about (not ranking, not getting traffic, not getting impressions, not getting anything despite of the fact that your site is live and even indexed in google), you can't possibly be sandboxed if you get traffic.

Now onto your questions...


yes, it shouldn't be a problem if you're following some common sense rules of SEO, such as not abusing the anchor texts, or drip feeding your links, etc...

But since your site is already getting traffic it means that you've done well with those backlinks. Just be careful not to blast 100s of them at once, or to one page only, and not to use exact match anchors as this is one of the most sensitive, yet overlooked penalties that newbies trigger with their sites (even I overlook the anchor texts sometimes and then wonder why the site doesn't rank)


first of all, you're NOT sandboxed, so get that idea out of your head. If your site gets traffic from google you're not sandboxed. Period!

The power of a backlink kicks in within a few days of the link being indexed, but I usually give it up to 2 weeks to show any improvement. If the rankings don't improve after 2 weeks I'll assume that the link(s) is/are either
- low quality
- nofollow
- not enough of them

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PHPInjected said:

Now I feel dumb. I missed the part where he said he was getting visitors from long-tail keywords but I read the sentence?

I don't know, off day I guess.

Well constructed response, though.

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tazarbm said:

how can you still be sandboxed when you're already getting traffic? Some of you, people, don't even know what sandboxing means, so let me explain this rather simple notion in even more basic terms...

Do you know that rectangular box, full of sand in which toddlers play with their little shovel to create whatever they want? That's a sandbox, that's the entire world for those little kids, they can do whatever they want in that sandbox without bothering anyone from outside, or others bothering them.

THAT is a sandbox, and in the SEO world sandbox means that your website is yours to play with however you like without anyone noticing, or without your site influencing anybody else (ie. the google rankings) even though the site is live.

In other words, you have a live, fully working website, that you've published content on, built backlinks to, you've done everything by the book of SEO and yet, you're not ranking anywhere because you're.... well... sandboxed. That's what the google sandbox is all about (not ranking, not getting traffic, not getting impressions, not getting anything despite of the fact that your site is live and even indexed in google), you can't possibly be sandboxed if you get traffic.

Now onto your questions...


yes, it shouldn't be a problem if you're following some common sense rules of SEO, such as not abusing the anchor texts, or drip feeding your links, etc...

But since your site is already getting traffic it means that you've done well with those backlinks. Just be careful not to blast 100s of them at once, or to one page only, and not to use exact match anchors as this is one of the most sensitive, yet overlooked penalties that newbies trigger with their sites (even I overlook the anchor texts sometimes and then wonder why the site doesn't rank)


first of all, you're NOT sandboxed, so get that idea out of your head. If your site gets traffic from google you're not sandboxed. Period!

The power of a backlink kicks in within a few days of the link being indexed, but I usually give it up to 2 weeks to show any improvement. If the rankings don't improve after 2 weeks I'll assume that the link(s) is/are either...

- low quality
- nofollow
- not enough of them

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Jave said:

Thanks alot @tazarbm - Yeah i don't know always read about sandbox here and so it seemed weird to me why my site wouldn't be affected by it from the beginning

But great, no sandbox i will get this out of my head now and will try to build backlinks to rank for the more competetive keywords.

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