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Google Sandbox FAQ - Everything you need to know
What is the sandbox?
Basically its a time period that keywords that are competitive must wait in order to achieve results on Google.
Is it real?
Better believe it.
Does the sandbox effect my entire site?
No! It is keyword related only. Say you make a site for home loans. Everything about the site is home loan this and home loan that. But you name your site www. doodypants.com. Now you will rank well for the term “doody pants” because it is not competitive. But you will be in the sandbox for the keyword “home loans”.
What can I do to avoid the sandbox?
This is really not possible. I dont care what trick you have up your sleeve, you will not rank in the first few pages for “home loans” until you did your time with the other children in the sandbox. This just cant and wont happen until they remove it.
To avoid the sandbox though you can target non competitive keywords. By doing this you are able to jump up in the ranks very quickly but chances are those terms have a crappy search per day so it wont be bringing in much traffic.
What can I do while I am in the sandbox?
Just go on about your business. Create backlinks and work on your content.
How long will I be in the sandbox?
The general term that is thrown out there is 9 months. But this is dependant on how competitive your keyword is. The more competitive the longer you wait.
How can I tell if I am in the sandbox?
Doing a search for allinanchor:”keyword” is the best way to tell. My general rule is if you have go through and search page by page looking for your URL and find it then you are not in the sandbox. But if you get tired of looking and your fingers start to hurt and you quit before you find it then you are in the sandbox. 
I heard if I build links slowly I wont go in the sandbox
We have all heard this and I dont know who started this whole theory but I personally dont believe in this. I think someone people just tried this out and they started ranking for the keyword they were targetting. What I bet is that keyword wasnt competitive anyways.
All of the answers are based on MY experiences. Everyone on the internet has had different experiences and has different opinions. If you disagree with anything here I would like to here why. (be detailed)
Do you make good money with BlackLabelAds?
It seems like many people struggle to find a company that pay good money for adult traffic. In my experience, BlackLabelAds, a siter company from Adbrite, do pay pretty well but still a little less than Adult Adworld though.
While AdultAdworld seems to pay for all traffic ( with lower rate), even with Asian or non-English speaking traffic, BlackLabelAds only pays mostly for english speaking traffic, but the rate is better.
So overall, in my case, i have couple adult sites, not big, but not small. I combines both this company and this make me good money every months :d
So how much do you make with BlackLabelAds?
You may want to check out my easy earning, 10,000 with AdultAdworld here
Also, here is the screenshot to show you my earning with BlackLabelAds
AdultAdworld: A Successful story with Adult Advertise 10,000
After a long time struggling to find the best adult advertise company that pay good to All Traffic. I found AdultAdworld.Com a relatively new site but growing fast. Compare to many other sites such as Adengage, Blacklabelads, Exoclicks…. This company pay the most for all traffic. The fact is many of my visitors come from non-english speaking country. But I am still able to make no less than 50$ per day with Adult Adworld.
Although the control panel does not have the option to view number of clicks, pageviews, impressions and eCPM but it does bring me good amount of money every month. While it does not show me the impression or pageviews, but using google analytics i can see that this site has about 10,000 unique per visitors everyday with about 70,000 pageviews and only 40% from english speaking contries. The rest is from Asia, Africa.
In the last 5 months, I have well made over 10,000 with Adult Adworld with very little works. As you know, this kind of sites get traffic very easily. So if you are looking for a good company to handle your adult traffic, you should give them a try.
Click this link to register for better eCPM price: Register Publisher account AdultAdworld
Here is some of the screenshots to show you.
Income Report For April 2008
Every month I will make a public post of the income for last month. For example, I will post income report for April sometime in May (usually at the beginning). These reports by no mean used for showing off purpose. The true purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent about what I make online, and so that years down the road I can show everyone my journey to wealth. Being completely transparent about what I earn online also allows me to show you my biggest mistakes, and what I have learned from the most. The more mistakes I have, the more I learn from, and the more I show you how to avoid. My monthly online income reports are a summary of where I made my money, and where I lost my money.
Note: this income report does not come from this blog but it is the sum of a few other blogs/forums that i own.
Blog Statistics
Numbers in parenthesis are stats from last month to show improvements or declines.
- Google Pagerank: 1 site PR5, 2 site PR4, 2 site PR 3, 6 sites PR 2, around 10 others site has PR 0 or 1
- Technorati Authority 493 (423)
- Total Visitors 176,794 (155,746)
- Total Pageviews 514,519 (513,543)
- RSS Subscribers 842 (660)
Advertising
- Adsense $87.79 ($74.78)
- Adtoll - Removed
- Kontera - $27.38
Consulting Clients
- Link Building Service & Viral Marketing - $2400
Monthly Expenses
- Google Adwords - $43.61 + $5 signup cost
- Server cost: 550$ - 2 Quad Core Xeon 5335 for hosting.
- MSN Adcenter - $0.30 + $5 signup cost (although I have $75 of free spending money now)
Total April Online Revenue - $7749.17
Total April Online Profit - $7195.26
Profit per day - $239.84
Conclusion
April was another very solid month for earnings, and a solid growth for the blog. I reached a pagerank 5 for 1 site already, which was months ahead of my prediction as well. I have started getting my feet wet with affiliate marketing, and I will enjoy doing that and will continue to spend a lot of time learning it in May. I have referred 19 affiliates to neverblue ads, one of whom is making $200-500/day with it, netting me a nice amount of money through the 2% referral system. Congrats to whoever is utilizing neverblue ads from my post! My future goals for a few months from now are to be making $300/day profit, and I believe I should be there in a couple of months easy.
How well did you do this month?
How to find the best keywords for your website
Alright, so after sometime doing research on the internet and lurking on some webmaster forums such as DigitalPoint, Webmasterworld,… I now can have some experience with SEO would like to share with everyone. If you like it any find it helpful please feel free to link it, but please leave the link to this site too. Here we go.
The basics: Why is it important to invest some time to find the best keywords?
If you target the wrong keywords, your website promotion efforts will be in vain and you will waste a lot of time and money.
