Building on established site to avoid sandbox

[nicksthename]

I'm thinking of buying an existing website, not very well developed, but been around for a couple of years.

Was then planning on adding lots of content, along with steady link building.

This is purely to avoid the sandbox.

Has anyone had success with this strategy or is it something that should be avoided?

Thanks

Nick

[janeth]

I know a couple sites it has been done with and none of them have had any problems.

[SEOforGoogle]

Build the development site on a subdomain of a site that is already indexed. Once the development site goes live, do a 301 redirect to the new domain - that should keep you out of the "box"

[jestep]

I think the subdomain is the best way to go about it. The subdomain will also help you keep the site totally separate from the existing site.

[sandis.viksna]

Well, I did the same. Site was about 1 year online, and then expired, I did copied it and continued to support old stuff, but built specialy section for search engines. and so far, i am getting about 15 to 300 visitors and growing, last week up to 600-700, and when google will finish, maybe there will be a 1000 to 1500.

So it is good to go that way, there is literaly bunch of websites that allows you to search for just-today experid domains. So take look at alexa and google toolbars and then you will know. Yes or no.

[TrafficProducer]

sandbox what sandbox?

Google imply there is no such thing! (LOL)

But then again Google imply a lot of things.

Google are likely to move the "Goal Posts", for how they list, (or don't list sites), at any time. So they may be no easy one suit all fix.

[jimmie1_us]

I'm thinking of buying an existing website, not very well developed, but been around for a couple of years.

Was then planning on adding lots of content, along with steady link building.

This is purely to avoid the sandbox.

Has anyone had success with this strategy or is it something that should be avoided?

Thanks

Nick

I say develop your site. Follow best practices for
Google and others with a good balance for all.
Stay relevant with your content and anchor text
and links.

Then don't worry about the so called
sandbox.

I say this because I built a new site.
http://jgp-seoservices.com

It indexed in a week in Google. Then
the rest of the pages indexed. The site
is average to fair since I am not what you
call a professional designer nor am I
a know it all guru.

I have been waiting to see my new site
drop off the radar screen. Vanish into
thin Google air like I have heard about
other new sites.

So far after weeks.. it has not happened!
Will my new site get sandboxed?? Well
that remains to bee seen. Only time will
tell.

[smakyyy]

I had a site which only had one page that said coming soon for a very long time - now it has a PR6 on it and i am now starting to develop it. so i feel that you are on a right track.
check out www.diamond-rings.org

[smo]

To work on an old site (without any good content or dead site) is better than working on a new site. But this situation is OK for today, mainly because of Sandbox. But we can't say what will happen tomorrow.

I am having some sites ready now. But I will add content and invest my time after one or two years.