Sandboxed?

avatar33

avatar33

e-Hustler
Dec 5, 2009
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Hey guys,

so I have launched this new site a month ago (click here), been indexed about 3 weeks ago by Google and Yahoo but still I cannot see it in the top100 results for any keyword, even those easy long tail keywords that I have optimized. I find it a little weird considering the niche isn't that competitive and I have built a couple of good backlinks already.

I mean I didn't expect top10 rankings in such a short time obviously, but expected to be at least in the first 100 results. Is this normal? Have I been sandboxed for some reason? I have launched other sites in more competitive niches and could see my site on the 3rd or 4th SERPs after 2-3 weeks of launching them... so I'm wondering why this one isn't taking off.

I have never experienced a sandbox in the past, that is why I'm totally clueless of what to do at this point. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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I checked your website and ran a few background checks. All your backlinks are ONLY to your home page. Don't you think you should've thought that over a bit before directing all backlinks only to your home page.
Build some links to content pages, target more than 1 keyword to avoid keyword over-saturation and you should see some results within a week.
If you need some help with it, feel free to PM me.
 
DumDum I didn't even build that many links so there shouldn't be any oversaturation. Anyways I guess I have no choice but to keep building links and hope for the best... I just hope this is not some kind of 6 months penalty or something.
 
avatar33 said:
DumDum I didn't even build that many links so there shouldn't be any oversaturation. Anyways I guess I have no choice but to keep building links and hope for the best... I just hope this is not some kind of 6 months penalty or something.
Click to expand...

You will never have enough links, there's always a reason to build more. If your site is good, it could start building it's own links down the road as people start visiting, but until then, just keep building links.
 
"girl soccer" has 52.7 million raw competition. And pretty much every other phrase in your title tag has even more. You don't consider this competitive?

I don't see any longtails in your title tag, they're all generic terms with loads of competition. If you have longtails you're going after stick em in the front of the title tag and optimize for those. You're talking about a site that's a month old for phrases that are extremely generic
 
That raw competition doesn't matter as much as the data on the sites currently on the front page. You're going up against what looks like a bunch of old, high-ish PR soccer club and organization sites that have pretty good backlink numbers.

I would personally do this: make sure all of your on site SEO stuff is cleaned up and perfectly done (images, anchor titles, page title, meta, h1+h2, etc.). Then, get yourself a list of a bunch of related keywords and start writing blog posts about each one, and then treat each of those blog posts like it is its own site, and do a full link building campaign for each one. Those longtails will start adding up and you'll build yourself a solid base for expanding into the harder shorttail keywords.
 
thanks guys for your feedback. Yeah I guess the Girls Soccer niche is just tougher than I thought... I really thought that scoring a nice domain name like girlsoccer.net (with the keyword straight in the domain) would get me way ahead of the competition but it didn't. Seems like Google loves those High School Girl Soccer Clubs. Oh well, maybe I should post some sexy soccer girls pics to get the traffic coming... can Google's Bot read this? :)



Soccer-Girl.jpg
 
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