Some observations of Googles fresh boost
Note: Take a look at my project, I offer you a professional website for free with N.nu.
Site A
Article site that ranked extremely well starting just some days after it went online with 20-60 daily referrals from Google between 10th December 2005 to 4th February 2006 then suddenly nothing. Literally 0 Google referrals after that. 8 weeks before hitting the sandbox.
Link building: Agressive and many PR 4-5 links and also sitewides when the site was created and after no more links. Very unnatural in other words.
Site B
Ranked well in Google between 24th November 2005 to 21st March 2006 and after that cannot be found. That is 16 weeks.
Link building: Few sitewide PR 4-5 from directories and a few more links in the early stages of the site. Not so unnatural like site A.
–
I have now a number of sites in the fresh boost and it will be interesting to observe more about this to see how long before they hit the sandbox and try to find a common denominator. One site is ranking well in Google and is in the fresh boost with only one single backlink from a PR5 subpage. Google gave that site a PR4 and has listed 38K of it’s internal pages.
Jim Westergren is a web entrepreneur from Sweden who lives together with his wife and son. Some of his interests are programming, web development, SEO, writing and
Yes I have seen this. I worked hard to build myself a new blog or two with 10 articles on each, had great immediate results but then dropped off the charts. To this day those 10 articles are not even in the top 1000 for their keyowrds but new articles or whatever you want to call them do fine. You better get used to having all your stuff thrown in the trash in the beginning, this is the way it works sadly.
Can’t say I’ve noticed this happen to any of my sites as yet. I launched one last week so I’ll have to see what happens with that.
its better to monitor for another week.
I’ve noticed this too. Had a poetry site with one link from my personal blog. THen disappered for a while (I think a month) before being seen again.
hi there.
in my country a web-master-forum made a seo contest. after a few months i wanted to join. i created a site and bumped back links. i mean in a few days i added my new contest-site to lots of toplists and my other high ranked pages. links from pr4-5 and also from high ranked forum footers. so the goal of contest is about becaming 1th site on google sarps with pre-told phrase. well. after 10 days my page is on the 9th place of google’s first page in my searches around my country. your theory is damn true. google is trying my site’s performance before indexing or taking it to a good place. (i know only 1 page indexed but site has 50~ pages) i told before it is a contest site so it has not much visitor. so big G can think it is a bullshit site.. so sandbox waits me. i sense it..
on other hand if the first site of contest take not much more visitors than me G can save my place… for example 1th site has 100 visitors daily and mine has ~30 maybe.. so if the formula is true with a black hat: got a “big bara boom” [as leeloo said before in "5th element" -sorry for useless words-] from G with lots of backlinks in a few days and make your content fresh -and last and- make really much visitor for saving yr ass rank of yr page in the list.
dear Jim im sorry of my bad english but i think u got the thought of me. i hope my site saves its position and gets higher till contest ends.. thank you for that good article…
[amonhanor]
Obvious old is obvious. but really great article. thank you guys. i dont want to make more spam ^^ cheers.sunuculuk