webdude - 1:12 pm on Oct 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

I see quite a few theories being bantered about on the lag time thing. I personally haven't experienced it but, if we could pool data from sites that have and have not been affected by this, maybe we could nail down exactly what causes it. In order to do this, we would have to ask some pertinent questions. And please feel free to add questions because I got tired of trying to come up with them. I am sure there are many many questions whichcould be added. I am just getting the ball rolling.

But then again, this might just be another of my stupid ideas :-)

1. Have you had a site that has been sandboxed?

2. What do you think the symptoms are for the sandbox effect?

3. How many sites do you have which have been sandboxed?

4. In the last year, how many new sites have you developed?

5. What percentage of these sites were commercial/for profit?

6. What percentage of these sites sandboxed were commercial/for profit?

7. On average, at what rate did you add backlinks (per week) on sandboxed site(s)?

8. Are all your sites on the same IP block?

9. Are all your sites registered with the same registrar?

10. As far as you know, was the domain name of the sandboxed site new?

11. On average, how many hits do you get per month from googlebot on your sandboxed sites?

12. Does the sandboxed site use Adsense?

13. Is the sandboxed site listed in dmoz and yahoo?

14. Give ranking results for the following using keywords you think are unique to your sandboxed site:
a. allinurl:
b. allinanchor:
c. allintext:
d. allintitle:

15. Is home page of the sandboxed site cached by Google?

16. Number of results for link: on homepage of sandboxed site?

17. Was a development tool used to create the sandboxed site (ie. dreamweaver, frontpage, etc)?

18. What is the PR of home page of the sandboxed site?

19. Average PR of other pages of the sandboxed site?

20. How old is the sandboxed site?

21. Do you buy links for the sandboxed site?

22. Keyword/keyphrase density on home page of sandboxed site?

23. Keyword/keyphrase density on average for other pages of the sandboxed site?

24. How many new pages are added on average per week to the sandboxed site?

25. Do you use a database to generate pages on the sandboxed site?

26. Is your sandboxed site an affiliate site?

27. Do you post text from other sites (ie. newsfeeds, articles etc.) on your sandboxed site?

28. Currently,on average, how many pages are on your sandboxed site?

29. Have you had a site that was taken out of the sandbox?

30. If so, how many days was the site in the sandbox?

31. What is the average PR of backlinks for the sandboxed site?

32. Was the site that was sandboxed new?