Have you ever launched a new Web site just to find it ignored by Google for months on end, despite your best attempts to get it noticed? If so, you are a victim of the Google Sandbox: a dastardly plan to keep your business from succeeding.
No, not really. The Google Sandbox is a place new sites get relegated to until they’ve proved they are trustworthy. However, this can be a frustrating hurdle for new sites and new businesses to deal with. However, there is help.
There are a number of steps to get you out of the sandbox faster and they’re all spelled out in Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide over at the Link Building Blog. Author Andy Hagans touches on such things as:
- Getting into trusted directories,
- Link baiting, and
- Social bookmarking.
This article is incredibly deep and worthy of being bookmarked…which of course was Andy’s dastardly plan all along. The man knows his business.
For the non-SEO expert this may be a little bit of information overload, so if you look at the article and your eyes glaze over, be sure to give it to your Web master/mistress and ask for a synopsis.
I know that I’ll be checking back on it regularly, adding one new tool at a time to my SEO tool belt. Even if you have a well-established site, the information here is well worth investigating.
