Today I would like to talk about Google Sandbox. Does Google has a sandbox? Does Yahoo have one? What chances has a new site to be found by users and well ranked by search engines?

The term sandbox describe the effect in which a SEO-friendly new site does not rank for non-competitive keywords in a search engine for some time after it has been indexed. It seems that this term is applied only to Google, other search engines, as Yahoo and Windows Live not being affect of it.

It is a long debate in search engine optimization world if Google Sandbox exists or not. Officially Google denies its existence.

If you have a new site and you would like to know if it is sandboxed, there are few commands you could use to check what indexed pages of your site have the highest ranking weight for a keyword in a domain, title and anchor text. Here you have one example we used for our own site (which is a very new site):

• allinanchor:seo company Lancaster PA
• allintitle:seo company Lancaster PA
• allinurl:http://www.jatoseo.com

If your site does not appear in Google’s first 50 search results and you are sure that your site is SEO friendly, maybe your site is sandboxed. What can you do? Not too much. Continue to improve your site. Good quality content, quality backlinks, article marketing will help your site to get well ranked.

Wait patiently and keep working!

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