Posts Tagged ‘indexing’

An SEOGOOG SandBox

posted by TheMarbellaSEO 2:55 AM
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, I presented myself with a challenge  to do some Internet sleuthing and get to the bottom of this perplexing condition that newly search engine optimized websites (that’s SEO) face known as the Google Sandbox.  At times this endeavor made me empathize with Captain Ahab chasing his white whale, but unlike Ahab, I’m  not going to meet a watery grave today.  ICMediaDirect.com provides SEOs with life jackets ?so I got that going for me, which is good.The obsession to confirm, pin down, and counteract the effects of this Sandbox is proving as difficult and elusive as any whale hunt I’ve ever been on.  Before explaining to the uninitiated just what the Sandbox is exactly, or what it’s purported to be, it warrants mentioning that Google officially neither confirms nor denies its existence.  So from the word  we wade into mystery.  We’re forced to consider the Sandbox as either a modern quasi-myth of the Computer Age or an actual no man’s land created by Google where SEOs are pitted against the machine.Kinda cool, right? 

This would be a limbo, an undesired waiting room for web properties seeking quality recognition from Google Search Engine Results Pages are, as I like to say, unSERPable.  Incidentally, the stakes are very high, too, since higher rankings mean increased revenue.   The effects of the Sandbox are not in question.  Websites listing with Google are simply beat down in their rankings for no apparent rhyme or reason, thus leaving the afflicted with no avenue of redress but time itself  no magic linking is known to spring sites out.(Though it’s whispered that influential friends at Google can pull favors.)  New websites and overhauled existing websites (often reworked, ostensibly, for better rankings) are its primary lictims   It was first noticed or acknowledged in October, 2004.  No one outside of Google knows exactly how or why sites are Sandboxed.Here are some Sandbox basics: it only happens to English speaking websites; it is a only phenomenon, need worry; it could last from weeks to a year before release into deserving results rankings; its effects are seen with Google only, so you can rank high on Yahoo and be in the Sandbox (or even rank poorly I have little info handy on poorly optimized websites mired in suspected Sandboxes).

The author’s huaband is a web designer Auckland,and runs a company which provides  hollowing costume hire and computer services.
 

 

Get Listed in Google… In Hours!

posted by TheMarbellaSEO 11:57 PM
Sunday, February 14, 2010

This is always frustrating for people eager to show the world their new creation… If you’ve designed sites before, i’m sure you’ll recognise the Google ‘Submit URL’ page:. Well here’s our first tip… leave it alone!! Using the method described below you can fast-track the site indexing process to just days, even hours!

If you’re familiar with it, you’ll know that Google takes anything from 3 weeks to 2 months to get round to indexing your new website, which is a pretty agonising wait if you’re keen to build up the hits.

Well you needn’t wait that long… in fact we tested this theory on a new website and was crawled by Google in under 1 day!!

The process is actually very simple. There are multitudes of sites out there that are indexed daily due to them having lots of great content and that all important Google PR ranking. The key is to get a link to your site on them! Think about it… Google’s spiders crawl through sites, jumping from link to link to find new content, so if they come across a link to your site they’ll know it exists faster!

Let’s look at a few techniques.. and you don’t even have to aim too high when it comes to PR rating. To take our demo site as an example… I got a backlink from 1 x Google Page Rank 4 site, 2 x Google Page Rank 3 sites and 4 x PR2 websites and was crawled and indexed in under 10 hours! Admittedly i’m lucky enough to own these sites, so getting backlinks was easy, but you understand the process.

As for finding websites with a decent enough PR I use and recommend downloading the Google Toolbar which you can download here.

Some simple techniques to achieve high PR links for free would be to find a list of free link exchanges (ideally with a PR rating over 2), the simple process of emailing backlink requests and posting on popular blogs including your link to your website in your signature.

These on their own should be enough to fast-track your inclusion into Google’s index. Alternatively you can spend some money and pay for a link on a high PR web directory (anything up to £40/ for a month) which will get you listed quickly (you can cancel your membership once listed) but i’m trying to save some money for you!

It’s as simple as that… get as many high PR backlinks to your site and the search engines will index you in no time! The Next step is SEO Optimisation

 
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