gordseo - 9:03 pm on Sep 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Scarecrow,

If Google were to go into content analysis and site themes, how would searchers find the granular information they're looking for? And wouldn't everyone's response be to harmonize their site for their core keyword phrases, and be resistant to developing new content? That seems like a dead end.

Jake's original post was about why the sandbox exists and there's been some interesting suppositions:

* new pages are held off to stabilize the database - meaning Google thinks it's weak

* adding too many new pages or site wide links from other web sites could result in longer term sandbox time

* that the sandbox has some sort of dynamic activity going within it - pages disappear or increase ranking even if it is way down in the SERPs

* some report that they had a new site show a PR

* that Google is spidering (panic mode) for a completely new index coming in 2005

* that Google is assessing algorithm criteria against one another

* and one controversial comment that the sandbox doesn't apply to internal links.

I'd say the best speculation is that Google has lost confidence in the index quality and is developing/testing a new algorithm on a fresh set of data.

With multidomain ownership, link buying, swapping, automated page generation and javascript linking they have to do something to gain control of their product.

I'd like to hear from someone whose pages have come out of the sandbox and are now doing well.