Sandboxed Sites - Back Together?

Do they come out together or one by one?

[McMohan]

Most of the new sites that I work with are still in the sandbox. Was just curios to know, if all the sanboxed sites come out of the sandbox during one fine major updation or one by one, over the rolling updates?

That is to say, should one be checking to see if the sites are out of the sandbox regularly or only when they know there is a major Google update? :)

Thanks

Mc

[phantombookman]

Hi Mark
they vary depending on how vague or precise the search term is but my searches tend to range from 6.5 million matches to about 200,000

It is easy to see in my area how sites and pages should rank as there is very little seo. Consequently the sandbox is glaringly obvious.
Regards
Rod

[hdpt00]

creepychris: if the domain was old and purchased a while back it seems the sandbox does not effect it. This could be why you had success.

[Powdork]

creepychris,
Also, sites sometimes enjoy a bit of time (1-3 weeks) in the sun before disappearing. Let us know how it goes.

[andsieg888]

I'm curious if anyone has had any success with buying a domian which has been registered for over a year but has a PR of 0 and then tried to build a site which ranks well....essientially avoiding the sandbox.

Or, as many have suggested, are recently created backlinks what are really being sandboxed, regardless of the age of the site?

[brixton]

""buying a domian "" do you mean Damian Del boy's son?:-)

[brixton]

andsieg888,sory for the humor ,just to relax a bit from stress,anyway there are some huge updates today in SERPS ,check for your selfs..very very interesting!

[Pimpernel]

Huh? Cannot see any major changes at all. A few positions moved slightly but nothing beyond the ordinary

[andsieg888]

brixton, it's all good.

not seeing much change in the serps in my neck of the woods.

[profitpuppy]

Hi, I read about 75% of this thread and I just as confused as when I started...

There is a sandbox... there isn't. You shouldn't try and optimise... of course you should... new pages work on old sites but buying old sites doesn't work all the time... and so and so forth...

In summary, (and taking into account that there will always be an exception to the rule/s) what overall recommendations are there (apart from sitting back and doing nothing).

Also, has this topic received any non industry specific mainstream press that you know of?

[cbpayne]

>apart from sitting back and doing nothing

I have tried everything to get out of sandbox, so sitting back and doing nothing is a good option.