Posted in Google, Search Engine Optimization on May 10, 2008
Many new sites, or sites that have not been significantly developed, have a hard time ranking right away on Google. Many well-known SEOs have stated that a good way to get around this problem is to just buy old sites. Another option is to place a site on a subdomain of a developed site, and after the site is developed and well-indexed, 301 redirect the site to the new location.
The whole goal of the Sandbox concept is to put sites through a probationary period until they prove they can be trusted.
There are only a few ways webmasters can get around the Sandbox concept:
Buying an old site and ranking it
Placing pages on a long-established, well-trusted domain (through buying sites, renting full-page ads, paying for reviews, renting a folder, or similar activity)
Gaining a variety of natural high-quality links. When a real news story spreads, some of the links come from news sites or other sites that are highly trusted. Also note that when real news spreads, some of the links will come from new web pages on established, trusted sites (new news story and new blog posts). It is an unnatural pattern for all your link popularity to come from pages that have existed for a long time, especially if they are links that do not send direct traffic and are mostly from low-trust sites.
Participating in hyper-niche markets where it is easy to rank without needing a large amount of well-trusted link popularity
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