eyezshine - 12:28 am on May 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

This has been going on for over a year at least for sites I manage and is just now becoming a bigger problem sinse google doubled their database and more sites are being affected.

Again, there is nothing you can do except wait until google allows your site to rank where you belong. I see my sites slowly coming out of it and ranking better every update so hopefully the mass scraper link penalty will wear off eventually?

But this could be what is causing new sites to be "SandBoxed" in google.

Because they rank quickly in Yahoo or MSN which causes your link to be added to thousands of scraper sites instantly and causes your site to get a penalty in google for gaining too many links too fast.

This makes alot more sense to me than the sandbox theory. It also explains why some sites don't get "sandboxed" which could be from not ranking well in yahoo which would cause your site to not get too many links too fast and your new site will not get the penalty in google.

It sounds to me like google needs to lighten up on the mass link algo alot. I know it seemed like a good idea at first but apparently they didn't think it out enough before they tested it.