Jumping Over the Google Sandbox

It's never easy for newcomers to enter a market and there are barriers of different kinds. For newcomers to the world of search engines, the barrier is called a sandbox – your site stays there until it gets mature enough to be allowed to the Top Positions club. Although there is no direct confirmation of the existence of a sandbox, Google employees have implied it and SEO experts have seen in practice that new sites, no matter how well optimized, don't rank high on Google, while on MSN and Yahoo they catch quickly. For Google, the jailing in the sandbox for new sites with new domains is on average 6 months, although it can vary from less than a month to over 8 months.

Sandbox and Aging Delay

While it might be considered unfair to stop new sites by artificial means like keeping them at the bottom of search results, there is a fair amount of reasoning why search engines, and above all Google, have resorted to such measures. With blackhat practices like bulk buying of links, creation of duplicate content or simply keyword stuffing to get to the coveted top, it is no surprise that Google chose to penalize new sites, which overnight get tons of backlinks, or which are used as a source of backlinks to support an older site (possibly owned by the same company). Needless to say, when such fake sites are indexed and admitted to top positions, this deteriorates search results, so Google had to take measures for ensuring that such practices will not be tolerated. The sandbox effect works like a probation period for new sites and by making the practice of farming fake sites a long-term, rather than a short-term payoff for site owners, it is supposed to decrease its use.

Sandbox and aging delay are similar in meaning and many SEO experts use them interchangeably. Aging delay is more self-explanatory – sites are “delayed” till they come of age. Well, unlike in legislation,

9 Awesome Tips To Get Successful in Blogging in 2013

Tips To Get Successful in Blogging in 2013

There are so many amazing and creative blogs now available online. So how will you make your blog unique and different and also noticeable than others? How can you make the visitors to return back to your blogs? Do you know how to increase the traffic and to build loyal followers for your blogs?

When you have blogs then, these things are very important and to make all these things possible you need to follow certain tips and tricks that will help you to have a very successful and unique blog. So, we have decided to provide you with certain tips, tricks and strategies that will help you to improve your blog profile and will make your business a successful one.

Tips To Get Successful in Blogging in 2013

Here you will get ten best tips and tricks related to successful blogging. These tips will not only help the new bloggers but also the existing ones.

To start with

The first and the most important tips related to successful blogging is that you need to choose a very challenging blogging platform. There are many easy and even free platforms like WordPress, TypePad, Tumblr, Blogger etc. that will help you to have wonderful designs for your blog and you can very easily start working with it.

Incorporate your blog with your existing website

This is a very important tip to consider. You should always try to integrate your blog with your own existing website as it will help you to create good contents and even the search engines will love it too.

Make a unique blog

When you have decided to create a creative blog then

you should always try out something that will not only please the Search Engines but even the readers who will enjoy reading it. Try to focus on a simple yet unique topic and never mix up many topics together. Always write what you love and never force yourself to write about something that you do not like. Your writing should always show how passionate you are about that particular thing. Then only, you can make your blog content unique and as well as creative.

Do You Recognize The Early Warning Signs Of Google Penalties?

Warning Signs Of Google Penalties

In the SEO world, achieving top rankings in Google can be a bit of a puzzle. Actually keeping those high rankings is a problem all its own. Even sites that play by the rules may eventually find that their rankings begin to slip. At times, it may be stiffer competition. Other times, you may be hit with a penalty.

The good news is that you may be able to spot the early warning signs of a penalty. Here are a few tips to help you spot an impending drop in your rankings, and what you can do to stop or reverse it.

Warning Sign One: A Slow Slip down The Page

One of the first signs of an impending penalty is that your rankings begin fluctuating more than usual. There is always going to be some variation in rankings. These may have to do with personalized results, the geographic location of a searcher, or a hyper competitive market where competing sites work to outdo one another.

The thing to watch is the slow slide. A common theme on various webmaster forums is that a number one ranking slips to number two. After additional SEO work, usually link building, the rankings do not come back. They continue to slide. Your number two ranking becomes a number five ranking and continues sliding.

This is often followed with a message in Google Webmaster Tools of unnatural links or some other problem.

Warning Sign Two: Head Terms Still Rank, But Search Traffic Still Drops

The main focus of SEO is to target “head terms”. These terms have the largest individual traffic, but most search traffic is comprised of the long tail. Long tail keywords represent a very small amount of traffic on their own, but when added together, they make up far more traffic than head terms.

If your rankings for head terms still look good, but your traffic is declining, you are likely losing out on the long tail traffic you once had.

A penalty may be on the way.