Google's Sandbox....

Written on 11:52 AM by Angie

SHOVEL ANYONE? Unlike the happy sandy place children would flock to at recess, Google's Sandbox is no walk in the park. It is a dark place, like purgatory for your web page. When you request your web page/blog be listed in Google's Directory it goes into a place called Google's Sandbox where it sits in wait for 6-8 months, though i here tell that some lucky web masters get out early due to "good behavior". Being in the Sandbox can be detrimental to the speed of your web page's success, the speed at which you begin to earn a potential income. How can surfers find you if they don't know your there? I for one have made just shy of $5 from my 4 blogs since I added Google Adsense just over a week ago. I guess that's ok since two one of my blogs are listed, and neither were ever built for SEO. Now on a side note, it is a strange thing to me that my page DealForaCause.com was listed in a week or two without me purposely trying too. I realize now that without knowing it, i was creating back-links like crazy, its just too bad i didn't have any Adsense on the site at the time. I was going to forums that related to my blog subject and leaving posts with my link in my signature, also i wrote many articles for these two pages. At this moment the most traffic goes to my Morning-Banana.blogspot.com where i talk about a fad diet i'm trying called "The Morning Banana Diet", it receives about 30 visits a day. The reason for this that i've discovered it that I have a link on morningbanana.com that leads to my blog and i always post there when i've updated. I also think this is where i get most of my clicks from. My last blog is Just-Write-Right.blogspot.com, this i'm hoping i will be able to develop into my cash cow, not that i do not genuinely want to help aspiring writers with their writing techniques, i do, but i also want to earn money.

So to conclude, there are a few things to get out of Google's Sandbox.

• Be sure to create plenty of relevant back-links from high ranking sites that are relevant to your sites content.
• do not use link exchanges. Google ignores these.
  
• Write lots of Articles! Be sure not to just copy and article from your page, it must be original, (or at least change lots of words in the article) because Google ignores duplicate content.
• Make sure your site is optimized for the search engines (SEO)
• Finally, remember that Yahoo and MSN do not have a waiting period, you just get listed. Google's statistically accounts for 50% of search engine traffic, the other 50% is split between Yahoo and MSN.