Sandbox

[Chief Blogster]

I have been reading about the Sandbox theory and it is starting to appear that I am there.

Blogster.com has been live since late last year but we just "re-released" the site in Feb. I am finally starting to see us appearing in google for seconadary keywords (i.e. free blogs) but no where for blog or blogs or weblogs. We have only really been active for 2 months now and have about 60K pages indexed in Google. The PR 4 that we have on the home page is from the old site and NO sub-sites have any PR.

If you believe in Sandbox, does this appear to be a classic case?

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[cbp]

Most cases of alleged sandbox are not, they just rank poorly.

To be sandboxed, you pretty much need to meet all these criteria:

* site is on a new domain launched site since around March 2004
* targeted keyword(s) are moderate to highly competitive
* most of the sites pages are indexed by Google
* Googlebot crawls the site regularly
* ranks well for non-competitive keywords
* ranks well in Yahoo! and MSN
* ranks well in Google for an allinanchor:keyword(s) search
* has at least a reasonable PR and a good number of backlinks
* site has reasonably good optimization (eg keyword density and placement), but its not over done.
* absence of anything known to get a penalty or ban in Google
* the site does not rank in at least the top 500 or so for its main keyword

CBP