How to Avoid the Google Sandbox While Ranking High at the Same Time
Hi!
It’s been awhile since my last blog post, so I figured it was due time!
What I want to discuss today is how to rank a new site highly without getting caught in that nasty Google Sandbox. As you may or may not know already, the Google sandbox is a spam filter which reviews brand new sites to determine site quality.
One way to get flagged as a SPAM site is to build too many links to a brand new site at once.
(I’m sure you have experiened this already)
Once flagged as possible SPAM, your site gets kicked into the sandbox – Google’s purgatory, so to speak, where you will remain out of the rankings for up to 6 months until you are able to prove your site is legitimate.
So in order to avoid getting placed into the old box, you obviously need to build links slowly but surely…
Only problem with that is…we have to wait freakin’ forever before we can rank highly.
However, there is a solution.
You create what I call a ‘coffee filter page‘. The best way for me to explain this is to show you a picture:
What we are doing here is using an already trusted website’s page as a ‘coffee filter page’ which will allow us to pass on highly concentrated link juice to our new site, without tripping the sandbox alarm.
So what I normally do is make a really good article and post it on either GoArticles or Squidoo and use that as my ‘filter page’. I will then link the filter page to my money site using my desired keyword I am trying to rank for.
From there I will social bookmark the filter page and let it sit for about a week until it get’s indexed and ranked. From there I will build links to the filter property at a moderate rate.
Since the web 2.0 property is already trusted domain, a more aggressive link building pattern won’t send any red flags. And since the only link to our money site is a highly valuable link from our coffee filter page, the new domain will sit higher in the search rankings without risking that dreaded Google sandbox!
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Thanks Dan for sharing your coffee filter method.
I have never really giving this method any thought, but know it will work like a charm. Going to give it a workout:)
Appreciate the quality info as always,
Terry Jett
Just curious how many links in a short period of time triggers the goggle sandbox penalty? Approximately? What would you consider a safe amount and in what length of time?
Thanks. I do appreciate your articles.
Dan, you crack me up. The freakin sandbox. I just recently experienced it. Now ranking at 196 for a completely new site that’s perfectly optimized. I like your post. However, the million dollar question is “How to get out of the Sandbox”?
Somebody could make big bucks with a solution that works for this 🙂
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Dan – Thanks, as ever, for the useful tips. Would you still build links directly to your money site? I can see how the strategy above has merit, but I also want deep links. So, should I assume that this is just one part of an overall linking strategy?
Many Thanks,
Frank McLoughlin
Wow, Dan that is so simple and yet while I was reading that I was going “Why haven’t I been doing that?”
Simple is always good and that is a strategy that we should all be using, everyday. In fact, this past week I was putting together some link building plans but there was a sticking point. My problem goes away it I implement the “coffee filter” approach.
Many thanks for the great idea.