After reading a recent blog post about a particular well-known and respected site (at least within the technical internet realm) having trouble ranking on Google, I began to dig a little deeper. What I found was a wealth of information - or rather speculation – about the idea of a Google Sandbox Effect.
A quick trip to the online information repository (Wikipedia) will give you bit of information about this idea that Google somehow holds back rankings on new sites. “New” is of course subjective. I personally don’t consider a site that has been around for longer than a year to be new, but the aforementioned website has been around for more than a year, and yet seems to have found itself in the Sandbox. Strangely, brand new sites sometimes rank very well at first, and then drop out of the 1000 after a week or two without any apparent reason….. [read the rest at the USA SEO Pros blog]
