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Just wondering what other people's experience is of new sites and timescales for it being alowed out of the sandbox?
...I included a link on our (Completely unrelated) site...
Do not worry about sandboxing and hunt for links. If all you have is one link from an unrelated site no wonder you are not showing up in the serps.
Hunt for links that are related to the sites own topic and this should help and then be patient, it can take a lot longer than two weeks for a brand new site to show up in the results of any search engine - let alone Google.
Craig
Just wondering what other people's experience is of new sites and timescales for it being alowed out of the sandbox?
75-90 days. You will pop up out of nowhere. No worries.
It's kind of hard to forecast the sandbox(lag time) (which isn't a penalty as this thread's title suggests) because I would assume that the time-line is decided by the current algo at the time the site is indexed. Considering that, by the time that site digs its way out that algo is 75-90 days stale. I imagine, as with nearly all the algo factors i'm sure, google will tune that a bit ocassionaly in order to acheive optimal results.
This site has a PR5 and PR4 link from my other site and I did not submit it to Google. Hopefully this gives you some kind of idea about the time line.
It all depends upon the number and quality of the backlinks.
Getting a home page, or a dozen+ pages indexed, can happen in 3 days. For a big site (30,000+ pages) it can also be 90 days to get half of it indexed.
Patience is golden, and great links are platinum, it has always been that way with Google, nothing to worry about. Sit back and relax.....or even better, start another site while you wait.
You can never have too many irons in the fire :)
Getting a few (hundred) pages crawled and indexed quickly isn't too tough with a decent assortment of PR4-6 links, but ranking is going to take time. Even if your optimization, inbounds and other factors seem to indicate that you should be doing better than someothersite don't expect to for 2-3 months.
As percentages says, try building a solid site and then begin building a new one, repeat. Once the site is ranking (i.e. there's actually some visitors) go back to it and begin updating, etc.
start another site while you wait
I would be more inclined to add more content to the site you have already, add more content every day if you can, wait till it is ranking well and starting to draw the traffic that you are happy with and then maybe think about building another site.
If Yahoo didn't exist so would I. But, right now the Yahoo collective is the biggest player according to my stats, and at worst neck and neck with Google, and it likes sites better than pages/content.
It is a six of one and half a dozen of the other call, but sites still have the edge IMHO;) Think about how bots work and the law of averages :)
If Yahoo didn't exist so would I. But, right now the Yahoo collective is the biggest player according to my stats, and at worst neck and neck with Google, and it likes sites better than pages/content.
The other way round for me, my time is better spent adding pages and new features to the sites that I already have running.
I would rather have a quality site with lots of unique content, then many sites with "middle of the road" content, my opinion ;)
