The Google Sandbox

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The sandbox is merely a theory established upon webmasters’ observations. It is still not proven that the sandbox exists, but we do know that the effects of the sandbox are happening.

So what’s with this sandbox thingy?

Have you ever noticed that your new sites do not get many pages listed although Googlebot seems to be spidering your site?

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Ping Google Now!

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Google has recently announced that they are now launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service.

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How to Avoid Getting Banned by Search Engines & Directories

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You may have already noticed that links from search engines and directories are extremely beneficial to your websites.

Traffic will flow from them, and you will also rank better in search engines if you get links from other highly ranked web directories.

Everyone will definitely want their sites to be indexed by search engines, or accepted by directories.

The problem is, some webmasters are being to hasty, and thus committed themselves into what we call as “Black hat SEO techniques”. This is a bad practice as it will instead bring more problems than benefits.

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Google Page Rank Update is in progress!

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It seems that the Google PR update is underway again. (Thanks Darren Rowse)

I don’t expect to see an increase in PR on this blog any time soon as it was just started a few days ago :)

In the mean time, you can check out your future page rank using the tool below, courtesy of SEO Chat.


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