deathclick
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We have a full spectrum of websites, from light gray to black. The technique we find works best is to do proper onpage optimization and domain name optimization and then build the pages on the site titled according to the Google Wonder Wheel/Google Instant auto suggestions. If we do this, generally speaking the site will appear within the first 10 to 20 pages of the Google Serps without any links whatsoever. If this doesn't happen, I typically find some problem with onpage/domain name/wonder wheel optimization and fix it.
Next we start building links. We like to use sparsely and randomly interlinked, at least three level, link pyramids. Some of the innermost levels point at the new site. We typically use more than one pyramid. We both insource and outsource the pyramids. It is good to have a mixture.
The key is to hold off on the link building throttle enough so that actual traffic is in reasonable balance with the created backlinks. I think this is cause of the sandbox. Until the actual site traffic from your 17,000 backlinks justifies those links, you sit in the sandbox. Everybody says, no, Google doesn't know my traffic because I don't install analytics. There are lots of other ways to discover traffic, from Alexa, to ISPs, to various network sniffing programs, etc. And if you won't tell Google your traffic, I think they also tend to assume the worst. I know many will call it heresy, but it may actually help to install Google Analytics and verify your traffic from the beginning.
So when you make a new site, go easy on the backlink accelerator. If you manage to build something viral, then both the instantaneous traffic and the zillions of backlinks will be in balance. If not, ramp up the backlinks slowly and the chances of sandbox problems are greatly diminished. If you must build 17,000 links in one week with xrumer or the like, either buy some generated traffic or be prepared to wait a few months before actual traffic can justify all those links. You can keep building links in the mean time, but I really wouldn't create this many on a regular basis unless you were in some sort of SEO death battle for the search term "iPhone" or something like that. And even if you were, you need a more sophisticated strategy than just building lots of links to overcome your competitors in the Serps.
Next we start building links. We like to use sparsely and randomly interlinked, at least three level, link pyramids. Some of the innermost levels point at the new site. We typically use more than one pyramid. We both insource and outsource the pyramids. It is good to have a mixture.
The key is to hold off on the link building throttle enough so that actual traffic is in reasonable balance with the created backlinks. I think this is cause of the sandbox. Until the actual site traffic from your 17,000 backlinks justifies those links, you sit in the sandbox. Everybody says, no, Google doesn't know my traffic because I don't install analytics. There are lots of other ways to discover traffic, from Alexa, to ISPs, to various network sniffing programs, etc. And if you won't tell Google your traffic, I think they also tend to assume the worst. I know many will call it heresy, but it may actually help to install Google Analytics and verify your traffic from the beginning.
So when you make a new site, go easy on the backlink accelerator. If you manage to build something viral, then both the instantaneous traffic and the zillions of backlinks will be in balance. If not, ramp up the backlinks slowly and the chances of sandbox problems are greatly diminished. If you must build 17,000 links in one week with xrumer or the like, either buy some generated traffic or be prepared to wait a few months before actual traffic can justify all those links. You can keep building links in the mean time, but I really wouldn't create this many on a regular basis unless you were in some sort of SEO death battle for the search term "iPhone" or something like that. And even if you were, you need a more sophisticated strategy than just building lots of links to overcome your competitors in the Serps.
