Sandboxed?

[byebyebaby]

Hi,

I have heard in the past of websites being sandboxes by Google, or something like that?

I am wondering how you can see if this is the case with my website?

I was doing ok for a while, made some major changes like 18 months ago, now nearly any traffic anymore.

The website I am reffering to is www.heaven4casinos.com

 

[LandofOz]

Your site ranks for heaven4casinos and "heaven 4 casinos" so I don't think that it's been sandboxed. The drop in traffic could be from almost anything at all, whether it's something you've done/changed or the result of a new google update that recently took effect. I don't think it's due to changes done 18 months ago. I would imagine that it wouldn't take google that long to react to changes done to a site. If its a drop in the serps, you might want to check if the number of inbound links have dropped.

 

[3joker]

Could it be Penguin? How is your backlink profile? Else it could be Panda if you got lots of pages with low quality content like loads of tag pages etc.

 

[edgarf76]

you come up first when I google www.heaven4casinos.com but when i typed in heaven 4 casinos you are not on the first page. I took this sentence William Hill Vegas added another exclusive slot by Williams Interactive, Valiant Knight. Valiant Knight uses the Multi-Pay game engine and googled it and you came up second, which is a good sign. Best thing to do is look over your backlink profile link 3joker suggested as well as go through your pages and check your on page opt and make sure that there is no duplicate content. Do you have a manual penalty in google?

 

[byebyebaby]

I hate those incoming links, I am just not getting any. I also have a lot of poor content pages from the past, like 100 words and a picture describing slots, maybe remove all those pages? I don't make those pages anymore, just posts about new slots.

 

[georgeliam756]

I would say your entire site is with thin content so yea you should work on it

 

[muffincrumbs]

I have experienced specific keywords disappearing completely, usually EMD but not always, on new sites. Completely gone from rank 3 for instance. If you see it on page 7 it is not sandboxed. If it is, just keep doing what you do building links and social media and adding content and it will bounce back. Most will give up and that is what G wants hehe.

 

[Stevenbmt]

Sandbox does definitely still exist. I hear it takes round about 3 months for your site to start ranking for specific keywords. Just make sure you have only have quality backlinks then you will be safe.

 

[edielaw1]

In the Sandbox topic, how long it takes for new sites to get out of sandbox?

 

[muffincrumbs]

Most are guessing about three months or longer. It is highly likely that the larger the keyword the longer time it would spend in the box.

 

[Kadabra]

In the Sandbox topic, how long it takes for new sites to get out of sandbox?

I think Muffincrumbs was referring to a site that was indexed and then sandboxed. A new site that wasn't penalized can be indexed within days, just add a link to it on regularly crawled page and it will appear pretty soon.

 

[Frank]

Sandbox has always been a myth, if your site had previously ranked then dropped it could be a SEO problem "peehaps a footer link on hundreds of pages?" or in my case a description tag was causing bots just to read the header which dropped me out of ranking completely.. once fixed I was back in the places I had lost

 

[Frank]

ok just done a search in google site:heaven4casinos.com and every page has the same description, this was similar to the problem I had.. set your tags to read the page content and I'm pretty sure you will start ranking for keywords again,