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Member You - The Google Sandbox - A Frustrating Inevitability or a Golden Opportunity?
Times are changing drastically in the workforce. This is not to scare you but to make you aware of what we are facing today and the years to come. First let’s look at the help wanted classified ads, don’t be fooled – they are mixing commission only and business opportunities in with the employment listings. Furthermore, you may be over qualified. Yes, that’s right! If you have a four-year college degree with or without experience, you may be over qualified.Wow, for over 25 years, American’s have been encouraged to go to a four-year college in order to be considered for a good job. Now that we have the degree, American’s are being considered over qualified. Plus, since the 90s, employers have been requiring experience in conjunction with a degree because they wanted to weed out all the college graduates. Now, how is someone supposed to get experience without a job? Things that make you say, “Hmmm….”.You see – In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, going to a college
Earlier this year the Tsunami disaster in Asia forced me to change the name of my web development business from Tsunami-Site-Design to Pixelwave Design. I had to register a new domain name, build a new website and start from scratch with my web promotion. The new site was an ideal candi
You have attended not just one but a few internet marketing seminars and workshops. Maybe you have purchased one of those wonderful crash courses or surefire success programmes that promise to let you earn $10,000, $100,000 or even $1,000,000 within 6 months. Six months come and gone and you are still nowhere near to “sacking your boss” and are hopelessly drowning in the silos of information that you have acquired with all your savings. Get the idea?Or maybe you are new to this internet marketing game. Do not get me wrong, internet marketing is the new goldmine in the 21st century but be warned, unless you stay absolutely focused, you will be joining the beeline of people who are making a dash for this seemingly “easy money”.What you need is a simple but proven Internet Marketing Success Model. There are 4 key components in this model : - Product - Conversion - Traffic - Back-end ProductRemember building your
Introduction
The Google Sandbox is a term applied to the phenomenon experienced by many new websites that delays the sites inclusion within the main Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) of Google. Often new websites can find themselves confined to the ‘Sandbox’ for 6-9 months, during which time traffic to the site is severely compromised. The Google Sandbox is therefore usually seen as a frustrating inevitability by webmasters and one for which there is no quick easy solution.
My recent observations however have led me to believe that the time your website spends in the Google Sandbox should be seen as a golden opportunity rather than a frustrating inevitability.
Into the Sandbox
Many webmasters respond to their websites confinement to the Sandbox by spending endless hours forever checking the listings in Googles results pages for any sign of their website. Not only is this a waste of precious time but also serves only to increase the frustration caused by the Sandbox. Other webmasters more sensibly focus their time and effort improving the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) of their website in order to improve its rankings within other search engines such as MSN, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and others. Although these may not be as widely used as the Google search engine, they don’t have the same aging delay of the Sandbox that Google does. Therefore, achieving good listings in these search engines early in a websites life can at least generate some traffic and hopefully some sales whilst confined to the Sandbox.
Earlier this year the Tsunami disaster in Asia forced me to change the name of my web development business from Tsunami-Site-Design to Pixelwave Design. I had to register a new domain name, build a new website and start from scratch with my web promotion. The new site was an ideal candid
Everyday thousands of people are searching the Internet because they want to start an online business.They wish to work with their computer from the comfort of their home. As a part time or even a full time job.I had the same wish back in 2003 when I started as an online marketer.At that time I had no idea what so ever about working on the Internet. I just had a strong desire of starting up something that could bring in a few bucks every month.My first question was: Where do I begin and how do I find someone that can help me.I had no one to ask for a piece of advice, so I just started with “trial and error”.The first couple of years were quite expensive to me. I bought a lot of different programs, most of which promised me a lot of money and fast.At the end I had to realise that it was all a waste of money. I made no money, I lost money.Have I benefitted from my Internet Marketing efforts?I have achieved lots of
My recent observations however have led me to believe that the time your website spends in the Google Sandbox should be seen as a golden opportunity rather than a frustrating inevitability.
Into the Sandbox
Many webmasters respond to their websites confinement to the Sandbox by spending endless hours forever checking the listings in Googles results pages for any sign of their website. Not only is this a waste of precious time but also serves only to increase the frustration caused by the Sandbox. Other webmasters more sensibly focus their time and effort improving the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) of their website in order to improve its rankings within other search engines such as MSN, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and others. Although these may not be as widely used as the Google search engine, they don’t have the same aging delay of the Sandbox that Google does. Therefore, achieving good listings in these search engines early in a websites life can at least generate some traffic and hopefully some sales whilst confined to the Sandbox.
Earlier this year the Tsunami disaster in Asia forced me to change the name of my web development business from Tsunami-Site-Design to Pixelwave Design. I had to register a new domain name, build a new website and start from scratch with my web promotion. The new site was an ideal candi
If you are new to the Internet Marketing arena, or have a limited advertising budget, it must be hard to see where you go to get the success you crave. But it is within your grasp, if you only knew it.If you fall into either group mentioned above (or even if you don't), there are 3 simple no cost or low cost strategies that you can employ to help kick start your Internet business.1. The Correct Use of Safelists to Help Build Your ListSafelists are frowned upon in many Internet Marketing circles, as being old, tired or just plain too hard to operate.But those that say this are sadly mistaken, and are missing out on one of the easiest and cheapest sources of lead generation on the internet today.• Yes they can be time consuming to set up• Yes there are some maintenance issues.But once set and with the right tools (which are inexpensive), I can send my messages to my safelists in less than 5 minutes.The key is in what you
Earlier this year the Tsunami disaster in Asia forced me to change the name of my web development business from Tsunami-Site-Design to Pixelwave Design. I had to register a new domain name, build a new website and start from scratch with my web promotion. The new site was an ideal candi
It seems that Ascot Realty in Buford, Georgia is having more than a little bad luck. First, a Buford family reports in the Gwinnett Daily Online that the company destroyed their landscaped yard on July 20th. Two days later, the same paper reports that the frame of a house fell after a violent rain storm.I came across the second story in a news feed on my Merchant Circle web site. Further investigation turned up the story of the fallen home.I did the same thing I always do when someone forwards me an email about a dying child collecting greeting cards or a pair of hunters whose dog sank their truck on the ice - I looked around online. (For emails I tend to check out Snopes.com or UrbanLegend.com, something I wish everyone would do.) What I found was quite interesting. I found - nothing.I found nothing on any other site, including Ascot Realty's. One of the pictures from the Gwinnett Daily Online - a news source I confess to knowing nothing about - claimed
Earlier this year the Tsunami disaster in Asia forced me to change the name of my web development business from Tsunami-Site-Design to Pixelwave Design. I had to register a new domain name, build a new website and start from scratch with my web promotion. The new site was an ideal candi
Everyone goes through an CLCE (crappy life-changing event) from time to time. Usually, CLCEs occur in palatable bite-sized chunks. Sometimes they cluster, like tiny metastatic tumors.This month presented an intricate clusterlike formation for me. I had to move to Oakland at short notice, my dog nearly got me evicted from my new place, and I've been getting parking tickets daily because I don't have a neighborhood permit.But this article is not about my problems. Rather, it's to demonstrate how CLCEs shape our decisions, and how you can use them to craft better copy.You see, dwelling on problems is the secret to marketing greatness.The Myth of Positive Thinking Remember the last time you described a personal problem to a friend, and they immediately suggested a solution? Worse yet, they told you to "Cheer up!!" or to "Get a hold of yourself!"Nothing is more irritating than not being understood. When you're in pain, you want empat
Earlier this year the Tsunami disaster in Asia forced me to change the name of my web development business from Tsunami-Site-Design to Pixelwave Design. I had to register a new domain name, build a new website and start from scratch with my web promotion. The new site was an ideal candidate for confinement to the Google Sandbox, and sure enough after an initial day or two of good rankings the new site couldn’t be found in a Google search for any of my keywords. A search for the business name did bring the new site up in first place though so I was safe in the knowledge that my site was contained within the Google database but the lack of inclusion for my keywords suggested that my site had been confined to the Sandbox. The inclusion of my own personal site within the Google Sandbox gave me a great opportunity to monitor and track its progress.
The first thing I noticed was the high frequency with which a Googlebot spidered the pages of my site. The Googlebots were visiting a few times everyday and visiting all the pages of the site. It struck me that if Google had gone to the trouble of writing and implementing the ‘Sandbox’ filter as part of their algorithm and regularly spidering the sites within the Sandbox then the Sandbox wasn’t simply an area into which new sites get put in order to delay their inclusion in the SERPS. Instead it can be considered as a probationary period for new websites during which Google pays close attention to the sites development.
This means that as far as Google is concerned, your websites time in the Sandbox may well be one of the most important times in its development. Rather than seeing this time as a frustrating inevitability you should see it as an opportunity to really show Google how your website ca
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