What is Google Sandbox effect?

[FONT=Georgia]It is sudden fall of PR of a website of unknown reasons. Sometimes, despite having good PR, a website fails to rank in the top position of search engine result.




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Google created the Sandbox filter for new sites to stop spam sites that buy inbound links, and rank highly for their keywords.
Sandbox effect is that if your site has a good PageRank and incoming links, and it shows up in search results for some secondary search phrases, but the site is nowhere to be found for the most important searches; then it is very likely the site has been placed in the Google Sandbox.

Thanks For sharing ur information about Google Sandbox.

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It is a method adopted to check the quality of a website before providing the page rank.
source:

http://buildmylink.com/articles/Goog...ox-Effect.html

Well,, i guess this means no cheating on PR.. haha! But this is great though..

The Sandbox (a.k.a. Sandboxing or the sandbox effect or the Google penalty) is a name given to an observation about the way Google ranks web pages in its index. It is the subject of much debate—its existence has been written about but not confirmed and several observers state that they have observed the contrary.


According to the sandbox effect, Google temporarily reduces the page rank of new domains, placing them into what is referred to as its "sandbox", in an effort to counter the ways that search engine optimizers attempt to manipulate Google's page ranking by creating lots of inbound links to a new web site from other web sites that they own.


A "reverse sandbox" effect is also claimed to exist, whereby new pages with good content, but without inbound links, are temporarily increased in rank—much like the "New Releases" in a book store are displayed more prominently—to encourage organic building of the World Wide Web.
David George disputes the claim that Google applies sandboxing to all new web sites, saying that the claim "doesn't seem to be borne out by experience". He states that he created a new web site in October 2004 and had it ranked in the top 20 Google results for a target keyword within one month. He avers that "[n]o one knows for sure if the Google sandbox exists", and comments that it "seems to fit the observations and experiments of many search engine optimizers". He theorizes that the sandbox "has introduced some hysteresis into the system in order to restore a bit of sanity to Google's results".


In an interview with the Search Engine Roundtable website, Matt Cutts is reported to have said that there are some things in the algorithm that may be perceived as a sandbox that don't apply to all industries.Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie state that they believe that, while Google does not actually have an explicit "sandbox", the effect itself (however caused) is real.

Google sand box is not in functionality now. Check this one http://forums.seochat.com/search-eng...ox-308576.html

If any website was newly launched means it will be in sandbox for some time, in those situation you can expect the site to perform well..

Google tempt to reduces PR of any site which are in Sandbox but these situations are temporary only..!The Google sandbox or "sandbox effect" is a filter that Google applies to new websites that want to rank in the search results for specific phrases. The filter exists to prevent SEOs and spammers from easily manipulating search results by satisfying all of Google's major off site and on site factors. The Google Sandbox Checker Tool helps you to check if your site is in google's sandbox for a given keyword.

Certain factors will determine the length of your stay in the Google sandbox. If the keywords your website is targeting are highly competitive then your website will be quarantined for longer. irrespective of factors such as good on-page optimization, incoming back links and original content, the average duration in the Google sandbox is 3 months. But doing the following has been observed to shorten a site’s duration in the Google sandbox:

* Register your domain name for more than one year
* Upload your site for live viewing as soon as possible
* Maintain excellent-practice seo-linking campaigns

You can determine if your site is in the 'sandbox' by going to Yahoo and putting linkdomain:www.domain.com

If the results show no pages or links you are most probably in sandbox. It takes 1 month-3 months to see site indexed by google.

Btw, Yahoo shows a much more accurate backlink result than Google. Why? not sure.