Sandbox theory

yes... just hear me out...

[Dice]

Hey Board,
One of your least posting/mostly reading members here...
Let me explain my background before I tell you this epiphany I had. On dutch television we have a show called "tegenlicht" (backlight) which aired a show about Google. On this show some google representative spoke about how incoming links determine a webpages "authority" about a certain subject. Right after that, in an interview about how google logs all clicked links etc. and how this affects the privacy of users, the same representative said clicks on organic search results also affect the order in which google displays its results.

Now I had a little lightbulb moment, what if the sandbox period of your site, when it is displayed in the first ten results, is actually a period that lets google determine the accuracy of your site for a given search term?
When alot of users that use a specfic query click your link while in the sandbox eventually your site will end up high in SERPS when your sandbox period is over, whereas when a lot of users DON'T click your link, your site will drop into the lower part of the SERPS.

I'd love to hear your opinions on this.
If this subject was already suggested by anyone else I apoligise in advance for double posting!

Thanks
Dice

[jadebox]

Now I had a little lightbulb moment, what if the sandbox period of your site, when it is displayed in the first ten results, is actually a period that lets google determine the accuracy of your site for a given search term?
When alot of users that use a specfic query click your link while in the sandbox eventually your site will end up high in SERPS when your sandbox period is over, whereas when a lot of users DON'T click your link, your site will drop into the lower part of the SERPS.

Yes, new pages are given a boost for that reason and also because they may be topical in nature - about a recent news event, for example. After a short while they are ranked based on incoming links and other factors resulting in drop in ranking in the SERPs. I think this explains the "sandbox effect" pretty well.

-- Roger

[maccas]

So all you need to do is click on your site from a wide range of proxies? Sounds to easy to fool.

[Weblamer]

If I created a dozen little websites and hosted them on one server and then had links pointing all to my website, would google know that was all coming form the same server? Or would it simply see it as seperate website with incoming links?

[ncw164x]

would google know that was all coming form the same server

yes they know if all the sites are on the same IP number

[digicam]

It would be hard to fool google in this respect, they can easily track your IP address and to have any effect it would have to be across a wide geographic area with a lot a hits - not worth the effort for something you dont know is real?