Definition of Google Sandbox

In general, brand-new web sites with new domain names need about 6 - 8 months to get top rankings on Google.

The usual process is that Google indexes the new web site, lists it for some less important queries and then the web pages drop from the search engine result pages for several months, even if your on-page optimization is perfect. Although other search engines work fine, Google doesn’t list the web site.

If you have a brand-new web site, don’t worry about Google Sandbox. You are not doing anything wrong. Google seems to delay the inclusion of new web sites. This phenomenon is called the Google sandbox.

Google Aging delay: Why does Google delay the inclusion of brand-new web sites?

It seems that Google delays the inclusion of brand-new web sites to encourage webmasters to build content instead of building mini-networks or buying links from link firms. Many webmasters try to artificially inflate the link popularity of their web site by creating a network of small web sites with different URLs that all link to each other. Many of these web sites have no purpose other than linking to the main web site. The delay might encourage webmasters to focus on the content of their main web site instead of building useless links. This delay is called “Google aging delay”.

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