Thread: Site sandboxed?

I have been using your tool for a long time, creating backlinks.

5 days ago i have realized that in google with specific keywords that site was in 3rd of 4th page now does not exist.

The fortunate thing is that site is still indexed, ( i can see it only with the domain).

Is the website sandboxed?

Please suggest

Julian

Are you talking about one of my tools(I assume you are)?
It is very hard to say anything without more details...
What tool, which site, keywords, what other SEO (On page and/or Off page)things you you have done on the site in past 1-2 months, etc, etc...(you can send me PM if you don't want to share here)?
It might be few things, like most obvious and standard one Google dance(the best thing is to wait 1-2 weeks) or some minor update which affected your site, someone reported your site(competition), raising some Google flags, etc, etc...

I have had experiences where my site was sandboxed for only hours to a couple of days, but nothing related to anything with Nemanja's tools.

Originally Posted by Nemanja

Are you talking about one of my tools(I assume you are)?
It is very hard to say anything without more details...
What tool, which site, keywords, what other SEO (On page and/or Off page)things you you have done on the site in past 1-2 months, etc, etc...(you can send me PM if you don't want to share here)?
It might be few things, like most obvious and standard one Google dance(the best thing is to wait 1-2 weeks) or some minor update which affected your site, someone reported your site(competition), raising some Google flags, etc, etc...

Nemanja, when a competitor reports your site, would Google immediately penalize or sanction your site, without investigating, or confirming with you, or that the report is a malicious one? They just do so?

Originally Posted by orly

Nemanja, when a competitor reports your site, would Google immediately penalize or sanction your site, without investigating, or confirming with you, or that the report is a malicious one? They just do so?

Sure they will investigate and they can tell if you are doing linkbuilding by their webmaster guidelines or not, which non of us do, so we are guilty(so to speak) right away.
Also I think that in most cases they will not contact you at all.

That could depend on how many links you are creating at any given time though. When I was still in training, I was told no more than 200 links per day max. The best amount would be from about 100 to 150 per day. If you have too many links popping up for a site per day it will raise flags and Google will investigate. I check my webmaster tools daily almost, depending on my time and workload, and until now have not seen a message in my inbox, or have found any significant drop in any of my keyword rankings, besides the norm.

With any linkbuilding tool, you have to be careful. Everyone is competitive, and everyone wants to rank, but just like gambling and drinking, you have to act responsibly and remember that if you use any large scaled link building tactics, you will have to deal with the consequences of it all.

lol this +1 thing Google has going now is really interesting. I logged into my webmaster tools now and saw that I have 15K in +1's.

but how do you know, that your site is in sandbox or not. Is thete is any method.

Originally Posted by brad12

but how do you know, that your site is in sandbox or not. Is thete is any method.

The most common sign is when your website is not ranking for your website title or it is on 100+ page for your (easy) keyword for which you where ranking for longer period of time and it is passed few weeks but your site is still not ranking...