Have you been Sandboxed?

It's quite common here at wealthy affiliate to hear new marketers and experienced ones ask why the page has been ranked?

In fact the other day IN live chat someone was asking why their article which was two days old had not been ranked. I thought they meant the whole site hadn't been ranked and I said it sounds as though you been sandboxed. The term "Google Sandbox" is in itself a blast from the past. It's a term I thought had died out five or six years ago, and began about 2005.

Google Sandbox

in the old days when Google decided it didn't like the content on a site, typically a very thin spammy site which was thrown up just to make money it used to sandbox it. This term meant Google had buried it so deep in sand and it would never surface again. Some did resurface after a manual review but very few, basically if you had a site that had been sandboxed the only thing to do was bury it! Google had frozen it deep in a nuclear bunker never to return. In general most people let those sites go because they were thrown up in the morning it wasn't worth fighting for.

Sandbox 2.

As we know Google is quite prosaic and it gives titles to everything. I didn't realise till last week that Google had given the term sandbox2 to a different phenomena!This new Google filter effectively penalises all new sites, not just those sites deemed to be using black hat techniques. It does so by filtering out Back links which will improve ranking.

What to Do If You Think You Have Been Sandboxed

Don't bray about it, just wait. What it means in effect is that you have to perhaps wait 30 days. Essentially it looks like although Google has seen you create a new website in a fairly non-competitive niche it is prepared to penalises your ranking for a while. This means Google is prepared to go to quite extraordinary lengths to stop anyone being able to rank very quickly and be able to earn money overnight.

What Google is requiring is a period of time to establish trust. Google has ranked in the past its fair share of what used to be called " churn and burn" Sites. So-called because they were designed to earn money quickly and when they were gone the gone. We all understand that this is not the wealthy affiliate way we are being taught to make a sustainable long-term income.

Don't stress about it and don't keep checking it. I know it's very hard not to when you start but you could write an extra article a week in the time that you waste checking to see that it is ranked. If you have done your keyword research in the way we are talking here then you know that eventually will rank so stop sweating!

It may be that a large amount of social shares may get round it all quality back links from day one but I doubt it. Just

Whilst this mayhem is going on and you are in the doldrums don't forget to carry on

• create more content
• remember that being consistent is very important so that Google knows when to check your site for more content. If you can blog a few times a week it will help but it is better to blog consistently from day one.
• Acquire links from authoritative sites.
• Try to gain some social shares