How to tell if your website is in the sandbox
Has your site been indexed in Google in the past? This article is going to explain to you how to tell if your website is in the sandbox. This is usually something that happens to new sites and doesn’t usually affect older established sites.
Were you ranking well in the search engines for quite a few keywords but all of a sudden you’re not getting the traffic you used to? It’s possible that you’re in the sandbox and Google has put you there. It is usually due to spamming backlinks to a brand new site or a variety of other things they would consider abuse.
Here is how to tell if your website is in the sandbox
Now it’s possible that you are completely innocent and shouldn’t be in the sandbox all together. I’ll help you figure out where or not you’re in the sandbox. As an example we’ll use this blog and show you some strategies to check to see if you’re included in the search engines. Now it’s time to show you how to tell if your website is in the sandbox using the search engine. The first step is to type in the url with no spaces.
Examples of how to tell if your website is in the sandbox and screenshots
Sandbox Example 1:
type “nichetitans”
As you can see nichetitans.com was included in the search results. Try this but with the name of your domain without any spaces. It’s possible if your domain name includes some highly competitive keywords you’ll have to be more specific.
Sandbox Example 2:
Be more specific – “nichetitans” or nichetitans.com or “nichetitans.com”
If you don’t find these results conclusive and you still don’t know how to tell if your website is in the sandbox then you can always manually look up to page 20 for a keyword you used to receive traffic from in the past.
Using Google Webmaster tools to ask Google to remove your website from the sandbox
So assuming you think your website is in the sandbox or if you aren’t sure than it’s probably a good idea to submit a reconsideration request using Google’s free webmaster tools. If you are in the sandbox this will definitely help and if you’re not then it can’t really hurt either way. Hopefully this has help show you how to tell if your website is in the sandbox and given you enough information to point you in the right direction.
Link Building Software
It’s been 2 months since my last post, I really need to get on it and make sure to keep this blog updated. I’ve been busy with a new software product for the last year and it should be quite amazing. The whole idea behind the link building software that my programmer is creating is to automate the daily process of building links and keep track of the links you’ve created at the same time. I know personally that it’s easy to get lost and frustrated when creating links for search engine optimization.
Now there is a lot of software on the market right now for creating one-way backlinks for your website and most of them use a traditional method of creating links. What they do is they collect URLs that will allow you to comment or create a link for your website and the publish to these URLs. This can be quite an effective method but it is still fairly messy and you really don’t control any of the links or the content from which the link is created.
So what our software will do is really take the effort out of creating a dofollow one way link from related content within a free web 2.0 site that you control. For example, if you’ve noticed there are a lot of affiliate pages on blogger.com, hubpages.com and squidoo.com that rank well in the search engines. These web 2.0 sites allow you to create a free account / free blog and generate your own content with outbound dofollow links. These sites can provide you will free dofollow links with the anchor text of your choosing within related content that will help you rank for your target keyword in the search engines.
Now, our goal isn’t to develop a product that just blasts one-way links to your site but rather a product that creates and manages tens, hundreds or even thousands of personal pages and blogs that link to each other and to you sites that you own. I’ll give you an example so that you can understand where I am coming from and why our software is going to dominate the competition.
Step 1: Create Article
- Copy / Paste 2-3 similiar articles you find on the internet in to our software without making any changes to make it unique
Step 2: Choose your anchor text, add it to the article if it’s not already in there, it will protect this term
- Example: the term niche marketing software pointing to http://nichetitans.com
- You will also be able to add variations to your anchor text while maintaining the same link or using different links
Step 3: Generate tokens (variables) to make the article unique
- Takes the input of 12 paragraphs for example does the following-
- Replace commonly used terms with their synonyms in a spin format, ie: House is replaced with {House|Home|Apartment|Condo}.
- Rotates the paragraphs or the sentences themselves, which may not flow like it should but this is more for link building that anything else, it should still be readable.
- Essentially creating unique related content to host your link
Step 4: Publish your new content
- The software automatically signs up for a free email address (hotmail or yahoo) and popular web 2.0 sites like hubpages, blogger, wordpress, squidoo, etc
- Once you’ve created this unique content you can publish 1 article that has been modified to become unique with synonym replacement and spinning to all these different sites
- In a matter of 30-60 minutes or so you’ve created a new email, 5-30 free blogs / web 2.0 sites, 1 article for each of the websites / pages
- These sites can one-way link to each other and then to your target site, ie: squidoo.com/ and wordpress.com/ -> hubpages.com/ -> nichetitans.com
- This way the links you’re creating have backlinks from other sites potentially giving them a PR1 to PR2 in addition to coming from unique related content
Step 5: Social Bookmarking
- Each new free email account that is created can sign up with social bookmarking services such as digg.com, stumbleupon.com, etc
- These social bookmarking services will allow you to bookmark random URLs or a target site / page of your choosing
- This can become quite powerful after lets say 100+ accounts have been created
- They should all look unique, so lets say 1 day you want some traffic so you bookmark your site on digg 100 times… page 1 probably on digg and some free traffic with it
All of these basic features will allow you to create entire websites / pages that you build and maintain in bulk with little effort. This will allow you to age each one of these sites while creating new unique content to add to the number of pages while aging and adding to the overall link authority of your site. All of these accounts can be aged and added to and updated in the future which is quite amazing.
Other additional link building features will be included.
Feature 1: High PR Forums , DoFollow Forums and Link Directories
- These can be used in quite a few different ways actually, you can create one way links to your homepage of the site you’re ranking in the search engine or to your web 2.0 sites
- Automatically signup on dofollow forums that allow you to use the signature / website field and create an account, some forums will require posting and this can be automated as well
Feature 2: Automated Link Exchange Tool
- Exchanging links with a related site or getting them to give you a link(s) is very effective
- You can query Google / Yahoo for sites of PageRankX or AgeX and pull their email contact data or email contact page
- You can now email all the webmasters of these related sites and ask them if they’d be interested in trading links or giving you a link in exchange for … using this tool on their site? 
Feature 3: IP Rotation
- In order to avoid getting your accounts banned on these services you’ll need to rotate your IP address
- The software will support changing your IP using DSL, a wireless card, proxies, and other IP related services
This tool will have a monthly fee but it will be updated all the time to support changes by the websites it supports as well as adding new features.
We should have a free trial within the next 30 days available to all who are interested in our new link building software for search engine optimization.
Exciting news!
Words of Encouragement for a Friend
If someone close to you is sick the best thing you can provide them with is words of encouragement for a friend or relative. It is important that you give them hope and positive things to think about to keep their mind off being sick, sad, angry, or even depressed.
Providing words of encouragement for a friend as an example
Yesterday I received a comment on my last post entitled marketing trends niche specialization that had a video I had watched during a webinar I attended the other day. To be honest this page title was almost completely irrelevant and a lazy attempt to target a long tail keyword that I really didn’t take the time to research. However, Jay did take the time to comment and I followed his dofollow “make money online” link directly to his blog.
So after visiting his blog I watched a video that he posted yesterday entitled “I Love Living Life I am Happy” which I had to admit is pretty inspirational. I’ve reposted it below so you can watch it right now.
A video full of words of encouragement for a friend or even a stranger
If he can be so happy being born with no legs or no arms and provide words of encouragement for such a large audience, it truly is proof that happiness is on the inside. I’ve always tried to be grateful that I am alive and everything that I have is really a gift.
Quotes from Nick giving words of encouragement for a friend
In the video he gives a few quotes:
“If I fail, I try again, and again, and again..” – Nick Vujicic
“I’ve never met a Bitter person who was Thankful.”
“Or a Thankful person who was Bitter.”
Some of the best words of encouragement for a friend are the ones that really come from the heart. If you really show emotion when you give encouragement it makes such a big difference. Your body language and facial expression is usually very important when you’re giving words of encouragement or even showing that you care.
These are words that should be encouraging to a friend, loved one, relative, or even a stranger. I’ve always been afraid of going blind… would you rather be blind or have no arms and legs? That really would be a tough one for me personally.
On another note this entire post had a secondary motive and that was to attempt to rank for long tail keywords that are relative to this video. I did some basic keyword research using Google’s keyword tool to find what I hope is a low competition long tail keyword. If you don’t know how to use the Google keyword research tool properly then you can watch one of our earlier how to videos to dig further.
words of encouragement for a friend
Ok, so the inspirational keyword was words of encouragement for a friend with an estimated search traffic of about 3,600 people per month. When entering the exact phrase in Google I saw that an article directory, Buzzle, showed up on page 1 spot 1 for this key phrase.
Now eventually I may be able to rank for this inspiration phrase and gain some additional visitors, even if they aren’t really my target audience. If you have 100 posts targeting long tail keywords and each generates 10 visitors per day, that’s an additional 1,000 visitors per day… which should be an easy $10-30 in revenue if not more. Hopefully this gives you an insight on seo and even some help providing words of encouragement for a friend or some else close to you.
