I’m Not a Baby, Get Me Out of the Sandbox!
written by Anthony Dinh
DiariesOfABlogger.com has been up and running for about a month now and I’ve tried just about everything I could think of, but it’s still failing to get ranked by Google. I’ve come to the conclusion that my site has possibly been sandboxed by Google. I know I’m a newbie blogger and that my site logo is a baby, but enough already, get me out of the sandbox…whaaaaa!
Here’s a quick rundown on what I’ve already done.
- about 3 backlinked comments left a day on reputable blog sites
- sitemap submitted to Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com and DMOZ open directory for indexing
- auto ping list enabled
- domain link included on social network profiles (Twitter, MyBlogLog, Myspace, Digg, Entrecard, etc.)
- articles submitted to EzineArticles
- link exchange program with some blog sites
- relevant posts interlinked to each other, and links back to homepage
- H1 tags used on each post
- permalinks enabled to rewrite SEO friendly URLs
- page title formatted to “post title | site title”
Each day, Google is inundated with literally thousands of new sites and it has no way of knowing the trustworthiness of these sites, so in order to maintain the integrity of its index, Google sandboxes these sites until it’s able to analyze and filter out all the spammy sites that are of little or no value. From what I’ve been reading, apparently a site can be sandboxed for anywhere from 3 months to a year, and there’s nothing you can really do but sit and wait…very annoying! 
Hopefully, I will be free from the confines of the sandbox soon so I can run and play with all the other fellow bloggers.
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Hey thanks for the intro for freshmeatdesign, I just got my new headers up
1 - I see that you never digg yourself, try to at least Digg for every post you put up, so that you got 1 digg and I believe others in the Digg Communities will see your effort.
2 - Try to send out at least 4 articles directories, I highly recommend : Ezine, Ideamarketers, Goarticles and Article dashboard
Those site has alot of traffic.
3 - Send your post to more social site like: PlugIm, Dropjack, Sphinn and Small Business Brief
Those social site are in Internet marketing Niche.
4 - Add more friends in My Bloglog!
You might try to reading some of the article that I wrote -
http://tinyurl.com/6kscca
http://tinyurl.com/6xmome
By the way, this are not affiliate links, the url is too long so I shorten it….
wong, i did see ur new header earlier and left u a comment
also, thanks for the suggestions. i do digg some of my “better” posts, but i don’t want to abuse it by digging my own too often. i did digg one of your ppc articles and left a comment as well.
i currently submit to ezine, but i will have to try the other 3 u mentioned. i wasn’t aware of the IM niche social sites that u mentioned either, so i’ll definitely check them out.
i will read the 2 articles u suggested and work on adding more contacts to mybloglog.
thanks again!