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So recently, quite a few threads have cropped up talking about a "30 day delay" in new websites rankings.
Most of us old timers have been here before, back then we called it the Goggle Sandbox and it could take a gargantuan 2 / 3 months to get a site from nowhere to page 1.
Reasons To Be Cheerful
A Little Proof Of Concept
Here is a website I started roughly 1 month ago, So far I have:
Hopefully the graph shows it's own story. It's worth noting that the small amount of traffic received for the first 30 days was for the domain brand name, which has been ranking on and off (Between 5 and 1) for the past 25 days.
A few days ago, 30 days exactly since the site was first indexed in Google the site did a remarkable thing.
The great news is that once the shackles come of your new site should be fine and work the exact same as before.I suspect that if I had built a few more links I could have popped out of the 30 day delay at page 1, a nice morning surprise!
Ranking In The Post 30 Day Delay Era?
Busting Some Noob Myths
One of the annoying things about SEO blogs, forums and the like - is that people don't half talk some bullshit.
So, it's time to let Sudo bust some noob myths:
And Above All
Most of us old timers have been here before, back then we called it the Goggle Sandbox and it could take a gargantuan 2 / 3 months to get a site from nowhere to page 1.
Reasons To Be Cheerful
- This new delay does in-fact only take 30 days (Proof Underneath)
- Flow in your back-links nice and smoothly and you should rank sweetly after 30 days
- This has nothing to do with social signals or any other snake oil you might have been told.
A Little Proof Of Concept
Here is a website I started roughly 1 month ago, So far I have:
- Built links slowly every day, 2 / 5 a day.
- Built out a tier 2 / 3.
- Built a handful of social signals each day.
- Added 10 pages of content at the start, non added since then.
Hopefully the graph shows it's own story. It's worth noting that the small amount of traffic received for the first 30 days was for the domain brand name, which has been ranking on and off (Between 5 and 1) for the past 25 days.
A few days ago, 30 days exactly since the site was first indexed in Google the site did a remarkable thing.
- Impressions were up 3 times as much.
- Traffic up 3 times as much too.
- Site ranking no1 for the brand and on page 2 for it's main money term.
The great news is that once the shackles come of your new site should be fine and work the exact same as before.I suspect that if I had built a few more links I could have popped out of the 30 day delay at page 1, a nice morning surprise!
Ranking In The Post 30 Day Delay Era?
- Churn and Burn is pretty much over, although never say never - when there's a will there's a way and I'm testing as we speak.
- Parasite SEO still seems to be working, quite a few readers of the Sudo Rank blog have reported success with my Churn & Burn method in the past month.
- Building a steady volume of links seems to do the trick, I doubt the number matters as-long as it's not erratic or obviously spammy.
- PBN's still work! It's probably a great time to start clicking the "drip" option when making your next order.
Busting Some Noob Myths
One of the annoying things about SEO blogs, forums and the like - is that people don't half talk some bullshit.
So, it's time to let Sudo bust some noob myths:
- The sandbox affects websites not links as some people appear to be stating.
- The sandbox looks like it takes 30 days exactly to get out of, not 60, 90 or 7.
- PBN sites are not the only ones being affected, my case study site was a tiered link site using GSA SER.
- SEO is not dead, it just take 30 days longer than it did last month.
And Above All
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. You are confirming it as 30 day. Hope so. Have to wait and see with other peoples data.
