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Free SEO Course – Suggestions?

I’ve recently started my first website and am keen on learning about SEO, but don’t know where to start. I’ve looked on various forum and websites, but they are all rather complex (and make many assumptions).

Can anyone recommend a good free SEO course that can outline the basics and get me started?

Hi,

Seomoz is a good resource, as is search engine land.

Basically SEO is about attaining a ranking in the search engines. One of the ways (emphasis on the ONE), is to generate one way inbound links, which I detail below:

Try to steer clear of back link exchange sites and reciprocal links. These will just take up your time and don’t offer a great deal of value unless you can get a reciprocal link from a high page rank authority site that is.

What you are looking for is one way links, that’s links from one site pointing to your own site. Think of a link as a vote, the more votes you generate the better your chances of rising up the search engines results. It’s not all about the number of links though, generating quality, relevant links is key.

Moving on from this, try to generate this type of link from a site with at least a page rank of two. You can easily tell the page rank of a site by downloading the page rank tool bar, available on most search engines.

Methods:

Try researching your competitors. Use Link diagnosis or Yahoo site explorer. Tyr to generate links from sites pointing to your competitors sites.

Blog posts. Find relevant blogs, read the posts and comments and join in the conversation by adding something interesting, leave your thoughts, offer help, and leave a link pointing to your site with your key words as the anchor text.

Article submission: Write articles on your subject, post to article directories – leaving your link in the resource box.

Free directory submission. Generate a list of free web directories; submit your site for a free link.

Dmoz: Although not as powerful as it once was, submit your site to the open directory project.

Forums. Can be time consuming as you really need to become ‘part of the community’ before being able to generate a link, but well worth the effort.

These are just a few of the ‘free’ methods. Keep doing your research and remember it takes time and consistent effort.

Happy link hunting!

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who will like to tell me about the tools of SEO ?

SEO tools and their application?

The best SEO tools for increasing web traffic are:

- Social Bookmarking
- Social Networks
- Article Marketing
- Blog Commenting
- Forum Posting
- Web 2.0 Blog Postings
- Guest Blogging

Very simple methods you can do yourself or hire someone out to do. Also check with PhoenixUP internet marketing agency, http://www.phoenixup.com/

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How to incease traffic on my SEO web site?

I have a web site about listing of more than 50 seo tools at

http://free-seo-tools-service.blogspot.com/

How should I incraese traffic to this seo web site?

You can get traffic by trying a free traffic exchange service like TrafficSwarm at http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?56268…
or WebCentreSurf at http://webcentresurf.com/?27972
Try StumbleUpon at http://www.stumbleupon.com and add your site to your favorites.
You can try article marketing at an article submission service like http://www.ezinearticles.com and link back to your website in the resource box for your articles.
You can also comment on popular blogs like John Chow’s or Joel Comm’s that allow linkbacks to your URL. Do a Yahoo Search.
Create a video and upload it to YouTube with your URL flashed on the screen. All of these are free.

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Posted by admin - August 19, 2011 at 5:04 am

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This Single Article Wields a Powerful SEO Influence Over Its Readers Giving Them a Magical Gift

Being a website owner with at least one website to promote and indeed on the internet with the intention to attract potential purchasers of your software, goods or services, it is imperative that prior to allowing your website to go live or not long after, you must ensure the website is capable of not only attracting potential purchasers to your website, but also to entice the potential purchaser to buy your product or service as the priority must be to turn visitors to your website into satisfied purchasers, as increased traffic will only increase the website bandwidth which ultimately will increase the financial burden – more bandwidth usually the web hosting provider will insist on increasing the cost of your web hosting.

One thing concerning owning any type of website, especially when burdened by paying the never ending monthly web hosting subscriptions, is attracting targeted visitors, as without targeted visitors to your website, there will definitely be no sales, and no website sales will always mean no sales, no profits increases the stress of modern day living, and increases the burden and financial loss associated with website ownership, not only are you depriving yourself out of profit, worse your desire to own an unprofitable website is responsible for your financial headaches and stress which causes even more stress by being financially burdened by spending money every month on web hosting and being deprived of the benefits that financial security can offer.

Being a website creator and website owner I have asked the common question many times, why is my website not making money that I so often read about on forums and other related information websites. Unfortunately, this article would contain hundreds of pages if I explained the finer details of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Website Promotion and Marketing and Website Advertising, I will probably get around to writing an article one day and explain in detail the secrets and expertise I have accumulated over the previous 30+ years of creating and owning websites – search on google.com is likely to find sources of SEO etc, written by researchers and not by writers who is writing from their expertise and experience in the subject, just recycled material usually from articles which is normally copied from copied many times writings over many years old and I consider the stale information useless.

But for now I need to concentrate on another very important aspect of search engine optimization which must be completed in the earliest period when you created the website or purchased usually a brand new website – hopefully not a template, as the chances of success with a template is usually zero rated, as google.com will normally avoid indexing a template website as there are thousands of exact replicas of the same template website on the internet – avoid buying template websites on eBay.com unless you are capable of re-creating the template into a unique website, the re-creation can be accomplished the hard work involved can bring tremendous wealth – buy a unique website, although more expensive with proper SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising will bring in welcome money each month. Avoid buying a website just for ads – google adsense etc, the rewards are minute – maybe a few dollars a month, unless you listen to the google adsense website sellers who will encourage you with millions just for you to buy their adsense website.

Software download websites have many advantages which can be beneficial especially if the software can be used by you to increase the saleability of your website to the websites visitors, remember for you and your website to survive on the internet for any period of time, your visitors must be converted into customers, if only a small percentage being converted. When I create a website my first priority in the early stages is to generate a system whereby to attract visitors to the website. Secondly, a system needs to used where a visitor can be beneficial in further attracting more visitors to the website and the cycle repeats in an endless motion.

But first, you may consider I am offering to myself two impossible tasks – some call it viral marketing, and honestly the completed system is effective over many years – old habits die hard, as they say, so how do I do it? The answer is easy as 1-2-3 all that is required is access to the webmasters hidden secret – website scripts, I mentioned software download websites as favoured type of software download websites well that true, though more specifically the download software websites I create sells webmasters scripts which I use to create and to further enhance my websites, as I own the full resell rights to the webmasters script software I am free to use the scripts in my website creations , in addition to sell scripts from my website I sell them in forums and on eBay.com – extremely versatile software, and definitely money spent as an investment.

Amazingly it really is a massive challenge to purchase the newest and updated webmasters scripts as a large number of script download websites was created when there was a website script craze about three to four years ago, unfortunately for the consumer the old scripts websites are still very profitable – the correct promotion and marketing techniques that is correctly practiced matures with age and improves with time passing and the adage is true today as its ever been, don’t repair whats not broken, in actual fact if the scripts websites are still earning a handsome profit why change it.

Firstly, back to the issue, of generating visitors by visitors. There is a new webmasters script which make it extremely easy for the visitor to tell a friend by email of the exciting website and contents and in so doing the script list the email address in an email listing, this script is very valuable as it identifies the visitors to your website as targeted traffic and they are so valuable to any website as they show an interest in your products. Unfortunately, there are different types of visitors, browsers who have no intention of purchasing products – they burden your bandwidth, and targeted visitors who show an interest in purchasing your product – that the reason why this cheap, simple and effective script is so valuable to your website and boost your subscriber list, which is important for viral marketing.

Another very useful webmasters script which must be explained as the script installs an ads rotator on the website, so if you are attracted by affiliate advertising as an addition to software downloads, then this is the webmaster script for you. This unique script offers the ability to the webmaster to decide which ads to display, show ads which give highest affiliate commissions, easy to use admin interface to edit, add or delete your ads, see the number of impression, see the click through rates of all the ads and many more benefits too many to mention.

I commented on the fact that purchasing website download templates is not recommended the simple reason being there are potentially millions of the very same – exact replicas of the template websites, being sold by hundreds of sellers; google.com will not index hundreds or even thousands of the exact same template websites. There is a very simple script that can easily convert a cheap template into a genuine and unique download software website; you must create unique Meta Tags and embedded  relevant keywords in the website text, for the newly created download software website – preferably selling scripts, as the template usually is devoid of Mata Tags and they are essential for major search engine indexing – indexing is where your website is listed with the search engines, your website must be listed to drive visitors through the embedded keywords to you website – no visitors, no traffic, no sales, no profit.

There is one excellent download scripts website (the website) which offers the two easy to use webmasters scripts which will boost your visitors and your profits, with the correct SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising, which should bring in some very welcome money per month – please don’t believe the hype from website sellers when they say sit back and watch thousands of dollars arrive in your bank account weekly, monthly this will not happen.

The download scripts websites is relatively new and offers the most up to date webmasters script money can buy – I know SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising I own it, the website, offers a large collection of eighty (yes 80) of the best scripts money can buy, including the two I have evaluated, some of the scripts are valued – recommended retail price, of nearly two hundred dollars (yes nearly $200), though because they are sold as a download software the potential purchaser will receive massive discounts, what even more surprising each of the eighty webmasters scripts are sold with Full Resell Rights – no hidden costs, or pre-conditions.

Now for the fun bit, how much is the individual scripts cost, that’s an easy question, the webmasters scripts are sold in one wholesale lot just one small initial price will allow you to download the eighty high quality webmasters scripts with full resell rights – sell them individually on eBay.com, sell one you will probably be in profit, fortunately the profit don’t stop there, with full resell rights why not use at least one of the webmasters scripts and create from a simple template- with the advice above, I will offer full support by email, and on a one to one basis – by email or newsletter, I will offer advise more revealing than in this article, on SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising. The webmasters script will make the task of creating you very own software download script website a breeze and I will be available to support by email or newsletter.

The download software scripts website is Resell You Can dot com, the eighty scripts are sold as a wholesale bundle but individually downloaded by the purchaser the eighty scripts are collected into 3 zip files, how many you download only you decide, but I suggest you will probably need the eighty webmasters scripts in time. It’s important that you download the scripts early as there is a time limit to actively access the download area. Download the scripts and save the files securely – memory pen maybe. Remember all the eighty webmasters script is sold with Full Resell Rights a potential money maker. Buy Now! And, in so doing securing the financial freedom you ever dreamed of, always desired and genuinely deserve.

I do make money on the internet, not enough to quit my day job, but a comfortable earner, but the correct SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising commits me for at least one solid week of my spare time. Following the week of hard work, I sit back and relax, occasionally, about 2 hours a week concentrate on further enhancing the website with SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising.

Software download websites – avoid cheap download software templates; will produce a good monthly income with the right SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising, the website promotion must be targeted for the correct website audience – webmasters for utilities, ebook for avid ebook readers etc, although website SEO, Website Promotion, Marketing and Advertising is the key to a successful money making website, as without the effort – not money, as I don’t pay for SEO etc, the website is unlikely to attract visitors and thus no visitors, no sales, no profit.

Software download websites is about the best websites to own, with respect to offering a product with no stock to maintain or goods to ship out – even shipping is becoming expensive; avoid the hassle by investing in a software download website – though again avoid a website template. What makes purchasing a software download website is the fact that you have available a download product you can sell at auctions like eBay.com, which is capable of earning money as a second source.

You must ensure when buying a software download website you receive the full resell rights to the downloadable software product, as full resell rights is now an essential requisite to selling any software on eBay.com, and ensure you have permission to sell the software with full resell rights in writing, otherwise you will have a hard time proving your case.

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Posted by admin - July 28, 2011 at 1:22 am

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SEO Query – Can any one tell me to get back daily traffic on my site ?

I had 1200 traffic per day on my site, but from last 15 days it is down :-( 12000 to 100. can anyone plz suggest me whats going wrong with my sites and what a step I took to get back all traffic again… well i did everything for my site all on page and off page activity include ping, bookmarks, comments, dir submission, article submissions n social media etc… plz suggest me to get back on my daily traffic…

So you want an SEO expert to tell you what might have gone wrong without any information about your domain, recent changes/activity you done to the site, where was the traffic coming from, from which source the traffic is down (search/direct/referrer)?

If you really want help, approach an SEO professional who knows what he is doing. Give your website details. Allow him to analyse your site and then expect some input/feedback.

If you observe my reply you can figure out what are the areas you need to check and analyze to know at least some level of data that can help you understand the reasons for traffic drop.

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Posted by admin - November 28, 2010 at 5:01 am

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Increase Traffic to your Website – the Basics

There are plenty of ways to bring traffic to your website. Some are free and some cost money. A few can cost a lot of money depending on the topic of your website.

Let’s start with the FREE ways to drive traffic to your website:

1. Directory traffic: This is traffic brought to your site because someone found you in a directory using a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo. There are plenty of smaller directories too. You should submit your site to as many directories as you can. There are some directories that charge money to be listed or for a premium place in their directory. I have not found that paying for these services brings in more traffic to my site, but others say it helps a lot. To bring in traffic from a search engine, you need to make your site search engine friendly. This is often referred to as SEO or search engine optimization. I have plenty of free tips and articles to help you with SEO for your site.

2. Banner exchange: You can make a banner for your website and exchange it with other sites. The easiest way to exchange is to join an exchange site. My favorite is LinkBuddies and they have been around awhile. They even have a free banner creator. There are more free banner creators on the web. The most common size is 468×80. For a link exchange through a service, you just put some html into your site where the banner will go and the banners from other websites in the exchange are loaded onto your page each time someone views it. Each time a banner is shown, you earn credit towards having your banner shown on other sites. At LinkBuddies, your banner is shown once for each two banners shown on your site. The nice thing is that you can put a banner on each page, so credits add up quickly. If you are just starting out and need some traffic quickly, you can additional credits, but this is not required. At LinkBuddies you get 500 free impressions of your banner when you sign up.

3. Forums: Join some forums related to the topic of your website, or other topics you are just really interested in. Post and respond to other posts. Answer some questions. Once you are actively participating in the forum, put a link to your site in your signature if it is allowed. Be sure to include it in your forum profile.

4. Blogs: Setting up a blog is free. Blog about your topic. Make comments in other blogs that are relevant to your topic. Make good contacts and exchange links between your blog and someone else’s.

5. Exchange text links: This can help with your search engine ranking as well as bring in some traffic. But don’t just exchange links with anyone out there. Exchange links with sites that will be of interest to the people who read your site. Links to relevant pages are always better than just a link to another site for the sake of having a link. Make sure that your links page is easily accessible from the main page of your site.

6. Email: Make sure to include a link to your site in your personal email signature.

7. Offline: Is your website part of your business? Put it on your business card, stationary, flyers, etc.

There are also paid methods of bringing in more traffic to your site:

1. PPC: Paid-per-click ads can be a quick way to bring in traffic. Popular programs are Google’s Adwords, Yahoo’s Search Marketing, MSN’s ad service and 7search. There are plenty of other programs too. The lesser know programs will probably cost you less money, but you will probably not get as much traffic either. The trick is to write a great ad that will make people want to click on it and combine it with low-cost keywords. If you are making money with the ads, then consider adding on some more expensive keywords. I don’t spend more than half of what I bring in on ads and this works well for me.

2. Paid traffic sites: You can pay to have somewhat targeted traffic driven to your site. If your site is new and does not contain Adsense ads yet (or a similar program) then this can be a way to spread the word quickly and inexpensively. Just be sure to read the terms of service for any affiliate program you join. Some specifically prohibit you from participating if you are using a paid traffic program to get a lot of traffic to your site.

3. PTR programs: Paid-to-read programs pay people to read emails. Basically, the program is acting as your affiliate. You pay them, they send out a great email and some of the people who read it will be interested, click on the link in the email and visit your site. Again, make sure that this is ok with any other program you may have running on your site.

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Posted by admin - November 26, 2010 at 8:57 am

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Google Pagerank is Directly Related to the Quantity & Quality of Backlinks

In this video http://www.ferreemoney.com will show you how to use the Market Samurai tool to quickly find high PR (5-6-7) backlinks in your niche market. In this example, I will show you how I use Market Samurai in the Social Media Marketing space and how I use anchor text in my Comment vs. normal http coding approach.

Your website Google pagerank is directly related to the quantity and quality of backlinks you have. Page rank can be improved with the search engine ranking bots by using the Market Samurai Google SEO research tool. The good news is, you can do use this SEO tool for any niche market in a matter of minutes.

In order to get a high Google rank and improve your page ranking with Google is a matter of identifying the right keywords, relevant to your site and finding those websites with a high Google page rank and then visiting that site with a high link popularity and leaving a relevant comment.

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Posted by admin - November 24, 2010 at 4:54 am

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SEO Experience

What is SEO?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) mean optimize you web page friendly with Search Engine. That’s very easy to read buy very difficult to implement. You know how to optimize you page for Search Engine like?

I would like to share my experience over SEO. I create new website last 4 months about comparison service. I believe in my mind I would like visitor to get the best benefit as much as they can. So I try to find any products and compare with many shops. That’s the point of this site. After it’s done 60%-80% I submit many directories (some are good and some bad). As I remember around 1,200 directories. On that time I do not concern about bad site and good site I know only “Submit”.

I use around a month with submit directory and later I change and update website to be the best. I have separate page for reciprocal link as well. After 3 months, I just check my backlink by SEO Elite and WOW. Only 20 directories have backlink to my site (from 1,200). Look terrible for me about “Submit Directory” Then I think submit directory is not work for me anymore so I try to use Social Bookmarking (Digg, etc..). Social bookmark can drive traffic but mostly no backlinks.

I try to learn about SEO technique from many forums site and found some technique to “Post Comment in Blog”. I think this way is the best to generate backlinks. For blog comment I have some tips to find related site you can try phase below in Google.

site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “any niche keyword”

  • site:.edu mean you select only .edu website.
  • inurl:blog mean must has “blog” in domain
  • “post a comment” mean specified to page can post comment
  • -”comments closed” mean show result only active comment posted (Google Search Technique)
  • -”you must be logged in” mean show result that do not need to register/login (Google Search Technique)
  • “any niche keyword” mean you keyword related to your site

I try to comment many blog and yes I get some backlinks from their sites. But most of them “Nofollow” but don’t be serious you still get backlinks except PR transfer. Don’t worry.

Anyway, for submit directory I think I will be back to submit again but I need to select the quality link only. Most of quality link you need to reciprocal for sure. And the last one you MUST be concern is you content should be complete. You need to usually update your site (On page) to be friendly too.

I believe this is not my last article about SEO. I try to do many things for SEO and Traffic boost up. I will share my experience again if I can find something new on SEO Technique.

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Posted by admin - October 28, 2010 at 1:43 am

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Positive Impact of White Hat SEO Techniques

All websites are created with single aim to get higher search engine ranking and earn greater profits. Thus struggle for top SEO ranking is everlasting making it an on-going procedure for websites as search engines change their criteria and preferences for keywords.

SEO experts that are reliable and genuine always opt for ‘white hat SEO techniques’ that create long-term online results. In white hat SEO, all rules and regulations laid by search engines are followed by site optimizers. Indexing of the content is done in exact way that can be viewed by the users. Created Website content aims at the customers instead of the SEO algorithms.

White hat SEO is the legal way to optimize a website in order to make it generate satisfactory web traffic. Chances of website getting penalized also reduce due to absence of wrong SEO techniques. The strongest point is good quality content and truthfulness. Keep your website structure simple and ensure that the programming and software part is simple and easy to understand especially for search engines. This would lead to better ranking of your site because of well optimized keywords/phrases.

Primary goal of white hat SEO is to offer website that has helpful information and is build properly. If you put quality content on your website than naturally the chances of getting links from other sites increases. Websites may take some time to get noticed, but it has a long-term effect on the success of your website.

Websites using this technique consists of appealing design and have better navigation links. For better promotion you can post meaningful text on other websites of your preference. The text or comments you put up on another website should be meaningful.

Widely used white hat SEO techniques are as follows:

1) Directory submission

2) RSS feed

3) Site feedback

4) Quality content formation

5) Creation of site maps

6) Article submission

7) Allotting back links

White hat SEO increases the attraction quotient of a website as it presents original content simple to understand and delivers right kind of information. Sometimes white hat techniques take much time to show up the results which could make you feel that it is not the right option! But the wait here is always worthwhile without any risk of your website getting blacklisted by the search engines. SEO experts of good repute and knowledge understand this fact and abide by the guidelines laid by the search engines.

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Posted by admin - October 18, 2010 at 8:37 pm

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Google Sandbox- The Basics

Introduction

Google’s Sandbox Effect has been a matter of controversy since an article appeared on Search Engine Round Table about how new sites ranked low in Google as early as April 2004. This was before the term “sandbox” was even used to refer to the phenomenon. The term sandbox effect came into being when a guest writer on the Search Engine Round Table wrote an article entitle The Sandbox Effect. In the article the sandbox effect meant that a new site can not get high ranking immediately by depending on PR and back links. This is because the author felt that “PR and back link (pure link popularity) credit is placed in a reserve- called the sandbox- for a period of time before it is applied to ranking and has an effect” with the purpose of preventing PR and link purchasers from getting a very high rank in Google right away and dominating the field. Although the term caught on quite rapidly it became highly debated since many SEO experts considered the term sandbox as inaccurate or, at least, lacking when it comes to describing the phenomenon. Despite the differences in opinion among SEO experts on the terminology as well as its definition and scope, everyone agreed that the sandbox effect DID exist and was a matter that caused SEOs and website owners huge problems.

The sandbox phenomenon was difficult to define earlier because it affected such a wide and varied range of websites and affected their ranking for a different length of time. And since Google never officially commented on the sandbox effect the most that SEOs could do was observe and note the possible factors that could possibly be one of the reasons for being sandboxed. It wasn’t until 2005, when the sandbox effect has been in place for sometime that a good definition of the phenomenon was written in an article called 2005 Analysis of Google’s Sandbox. In the article the sandbox effect was described as:

“The observed phenomenon of a site whose rankings in the Google SERPs are vastly, negatively disparate from its rank in other search engines (including Yahoo!, MSN & Teoma) and in Google’s own allin: results for the same queries.”

This definition was more general and inclusive taking into account all the different observed sandbox phenomena that different websites experienced.

Websites Affected

The sandbox effect, as it was first noticed, affected and still does affect a large number of new websites starting from the websites registered after 2003. It has been observed that it affects entire top-level domains instead of just web pages and directories and sub-domains. The most common websites also affected by the sandbox effect were those that used search engine optimization tactics such as meta data and link building efforts. However ordinary websites such as blogs, whose owners don’t even use such tactics, were still affected by the phenomenon. It was also noticed that the sandbox effect mostly affected websites in English with only a few reports of websites in other languages experiencing the effect. Dutch and Italian language websites were particularly free from the sandbox effect. In addition to these low quality sites as well as spam sites, affiliate sites, and websites carrying AdSense were affected more frequently than sites that did not have those features. However, not all such kind of sites was affected by the phenomenon while other more organic sites were sandboxed. It was and is pretty clear that whatever kind of website was put up there was no guarantee of not being sandboxed since there was no clear cut criterion for being sandboxed. The only websites that did escape or were exempt from being sandboxed were the .gov, .mil, and .edu websites. This meant that the sandbox effect could be experienced by any commercial and private sites.

The Effects

While the sandbox effect was felt by nearly all newly registered websites with such varied characteristics, the effects of the phenomenon itself is easier to enumerate since they are very evident.

As mentioned in the definition the effect of being sandboxed on the websites is a temporary lower ranking on Google’s SERPs (search engine results pages) as compared to their ranking on other search engine results. Note that the effect ought to be temporary. Sites report being “waiting to get out” of the sandbox for anything from 1 month to a year. The sites which take longer to get out of the sandbox are generally of low quality.

The websites’ rankings are also affected, as the definition states, ONLY on Google’s SERPs. New websites that rank low as well in other search engines and has been attributing their low rank on the sandbox effect are mistaken. Website owners of such sites should concentrate on improving the quality of their site and make some SEO efforts to improve their rankings since the low rank might very well be well deserved.

There were also misconceptions that the sandbox effect discriminates according to the competitiveness of keyword phrases used with a greater effect on highly competitive keywords and phrases. This is actually untrue since the effect could be felt by many sites even for non-competitive terms.

Getting Out of the Sandbox

Undoubtedly, SEO experts have tried their very best to come up with a way to get their clients of out the sandbox. Unfortunately everyone agrees that there is no way to get out of there until Google decides to “free” a website. However here are some suggestions from the 2005 Analysis of Google’s Sandbox article aimed help prevent new sites from getting sandbox. These tips are not fool proof and do not guarantee that the resulting website won’t get sandboxed.

• Target “Topical Phenomena” & a Non-Commercial Audience

• Build Natural Links & Avoid Getting Blogrolled

• Get Noticed in the News

• Build Exceptional Quality Sites

For those whose sites are already in the sandbox there is no option but to wait. However, you can make sure that the waiting time is productive. Tweak the parts of your website that needs improvement so that when it gets out of the sandbox it’ll be of even better quality but don’t bang your head trying to get your rank to go up while still sandboxed. You can also focus on doing well in other search engines. Google is not the only search engine out there that will bring traffic to your site. For more ideas on how to make sure that the time spent by your website is productive do read David Wallace’s article on How To Play In Google’s Sandbox.

Danny Wirken
http://www.articlesbase.com/communication-articles/google-sandbox-the-basics-54125.html

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