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    Is Google sandboxing > 6 months possible or should we move on?

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    • spanish_socapro
      spanish_socapro last edited by

      The below chart shows what we believed on of our domains being caught in the Google sandbox for the last 6 months; the sites has built site has built significant, relevant, high quality backlinks and content and is outperforming the majority of sites ranked in the top 10.

      The site was a reset project of a site caught in Panda however we tried to not use any 301 redirects or linkages between the site.

      After 6 months without organic traffic I am leaning on the community for advice if this could still be legitimate Google sandboxing or if we should try to repoint our external links to a new domain and see if the site can gain rankings quicker?

      From past project the Google sandbox issue has been resolved within 2 months.

      Any advice welcome.

      matIgqE

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      • RobertFisher
        RobertFisher last edited by

        This is the second question you have posted around a site and Panda issues. From "reset project of a site caught in Panda" I have to assume what you did was got a new site and tried to get it to rank. You state that you tried not to use any redirects, but the bigger issue is did you reuse content? was the site "spammy" to start with and is it still "spammy?" Are you in an area like payday loans that Google is really more careful with today? Etc.

        From looking at both questions, I have to think there was something wrong initially and that you have in someway brought that with you to the new site. I do not believe you are suffering from any type of sandbox effect for 6 months.

        Best

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