Google Sandbox effect

[mummrah]

Hi,

We lanched a site in early August and within a couple of weeks was being picked up by google. Not great ranking but considering we only had a couple of inbound links not to bad.

In early September the site dissapeared from google alltogether even when searching for the domain name.

A week or so ago google picked up the site again but last week it dissapeared completely again.

Is this as a result of the 'sandbox effect' and if so is there anything we can do?

Or is there something else that could be causing this?

Cheers

[DerekH]

I re-launched a site at a similar time to you, which involved the index page pointing to a completely new set of folders on the ISP, so one address stayed put and many others changed.

I observed the index page being fetched daily, and the cache date incrementing day by day.
After about two weeks, the daily visits stopped, the cache date slipped back a month (so the cache contained the old index page pointing to the old files).
After about 10 days, the daily visits started up again, and next time they stopped, the cache was not so far in the past, and the new site was in the index "for real"

You may be seeing a similar sequence of events.
DerekH

[ThomasB]

I had good results by keeping new sites fresh with new content. After a couple of weeks you can just stop adding fresh content as the new site will be in stable anyway.