How to avoid the sandbox!

How to stay out of the sandbox.

[my2cents]

How to stay out of the sandbox.

I have heard that adding too many pages to your site at one time is a sure way to get sandboxed. I have been working for months and finally finished creating a little over a 1000 pages for my site, all unique content.

Do you think this will get me sandboxed? If you have done this to an existing site, please share your experiences. If it does get you sandboxed, then what is the number not to exceed?

Thanks in advance!

[bakedjake]

The sandbox has nothing to do with the amount of pages on your site.

[freeflight2]

I registered a brand new site, users are contributing unique content and I don't see any sandbox effect, just more and more referals from G.

[whoisgregg]

New pages of content should only help you. In the future, you may want to plan a way for new pages to be added as you complete them. You could find that having pages regularly added is a bonus for your users and for search engines.

Any indication yet of how your addition of 300 frog pages [webmasterworld.com] is working out for you? ;)

[my2cents]

Thanks for the input! I want to make sure I do not exceed any limits and it looks like adding content will only help, not harm.

[nzmatt]

I registered a brand new site, users are contributing unique content and I don't see any sandbox effect, just more and more referals from G.

Hi freeflight2,

Any poor ranking for your keywords/phrases where Google lists Adwords beside the serps?

Just wondering if the sandbox only relates to competitive keywords where Google makes Adwords revenue?

[JudgeJeffries]

I read the posts about the 'frog' site and thought' this guys totally mad' till I reallised it was a variation on 'widgets' Duhhhh...

[mark1615]

I think it would be helpful to come up with a working definition of "the sandbox."

[whoisgregg]

There's been a wealth of recent discussion about the 'sandbox' already. Considering how strongly many people feel about it, I bet it would be impossible to reach consensus on the definition of something that we can't even agree exists in the first place. ;)

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JudgeJeffries, isn't it funny how we think it's strange for someone to talk about a real life animal but we consider it normal for someone to discuss imaginary "widgets?" I had about the same reaction you did. lol :)
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[Envision]

I hate to disagree, but it has happened to 2 of my sites. These sites were in completely different industries. I added 50% in new pages to each of these sites and a week later the sites dropped to 300+ in the serps. This was across the board for over 1500 keyphrases were the sites previously held top 3 positions. These sites were over 4 years old and the only change that was made is the addition of the new pages. I believe that by adding this much new content, it threw off the balance of the sites causing them to fall into the "sandbox".

It's what happened to me and it has also happened to several other longtime members. Check out this thread and decide for yourself.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Trisha]

Envision - adding all those pages at once may have caused your site to fall in the serps, but that is not the sandbox. The sandbox only refers to what is happening to new domains.