Sandbox Filters

...can I just leave it and see? or should i act!

[sandpetra]

I was riding very high for my main keyword for a new 1 page site I launched with very little on it. 2 weeks later - Google dumped me and seemed to keep my secondary terms but at -50-100 positions.

My main keyword etc vanished as expected.

I am now top on MSN for, well, a lot considering the page is kind of "spammy" but in quite a "minimalistic" way - but at the moment it is just a holding page - content wont be ready for a month or two.

My question would be should I just sit out the sandbox (for the next 3-8 months) and hope I will come in at my previous positions (or even within the top 30) or will non-action be the sign of a spammy site and keep me in the doldrums even longer.

Will the very filters that sandboxed me automatically assign a penalty/filter to the un-sandboxed page if i dont add links etc and make it more of a site?

[Quadrille]

For the first few months, avoid major restructuring, but continue to build the site and develop links.

There's no way to 'force' Google to take you out of the 'sandbox', and you'd be unwise to try.

But if the site is 'kinda spammy', Google probably won't be interested anyway - you may like to think about that ;)

You'll never do well on Google without decent content, so I'd start adding that ASAP - if you wait for months, then rebuild 'holding pages' with new content, you may well reset the clock. Better to build consistently - and be patient.

[Miamacs]

All you'd need is an on-topic link from a trusted site. You'd be out of the... "sandbox" ...within 2 weeks. Trust makes sites invulnerable to certain filters, hence what is called spam on one end of the deal, is called "great navigation" and "broad relevancy" on the other.

Besides, unless you have at least a few links with *some* trust flowing through, WAITING won't get you anywhere, for there're no links that can age.

What you're referring to is the idea when you have some pretty basic but valuable links that miss the age parameter to pass on a strong signal of trust, and "wait" until they are aged enough ( 3,5,7 months ) to get the site into the primary index by pushing it over the threshold.

But if there are NO links that are to age, that will never happen.
Also if there are enough links to pass on enough trust even without aging, you don't have to wait.