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[dbansal]

I see a major change in google rankings. The sites on which I was working from last 6 months, ranks very well now and sites which I stopped working but still lying on first page, are nowhere to be seen.

Anybody experience the same ?

[OldWelshGuy]

Yes I have checked rankings after seeing a sudden increase in traffic across a few sites, and there have been major jumps on a few sites.

[qwerty]

I'm seeing movement on rankings when I check on the API: one of my clients made huge moves forward on a number of phrases, and another made a number of minor (2 or 3 positions) moves down for another.

[OldWelshGuy]

One thing I have noticed, although only in a very limited area, is that Blogs have gone walkabout. There was a couple of blogs that were showing above one of my fun sites, and today, across the board they have gone. Anyone else notice this?

[powerofeyes]

there has been major shifts in google rankings, This update seem to prove sandbox algorithm of google is real, Most of our client sites which was buried are ranking extremely well now,

[Martin C]

there has been major shifts in google rankings, This update seem to prove sandbox algorithm of google is real, Most of our client sites which was buried are ranking extremely well now,

Yes I'm seeing the same thing - for my primary keyword we appear on the first page from nowhere and other search terms are now on the radar. Obviously I hope that this is not a Google blip!

Oh and for all the good advice I've found on this forum on help us get that first page position - you stopped me going round in optimising circles.

[Jill]

Are you guys saying that sites that were "sandboxed" are now out?

Can you let us know how long they were sandboxed for?

Perhaps they just did a major sandbox release. Seems they may have forgotten about doing this for awhile, as many were complaining at SEW that they were in it for 12 months or more.

[Jill]

Wow! My sister's site which is the only one I knew still MIA after Gladys is back on page 2 for her main phrase! She will be very happy. Let's hope there's further movement back to page 1.

[Grumpus]

I can't be sure yet, but it looks like many blogs and "article" type sites (or at least pages in those sites) are in the process of being moved over to Google News and out of the regular SERPs. I guess it sort of makes sense - if you want timely information (which blogs and article sites tend to provide) then you would search on a news search engine. If you are looking for timeless and factual information, you'd use a regular search engine.

I think I watched Google start experimenting with this about six months back. I'm pretty sure that they've started making a big move toward this trend around 5-8 days ago.

Try it at home - take your blog or article sites where you were enjoying decent rankings in the past but aren't seeing good rankings now and plug that term into Google news and see what happens. I'm working with too small a pool of sites to come up with positive conclusions, but the evidence I have all points to this.

G.

[dbansal]

Such major update was done 9 months ago in May, 2004. Sites which were not ranking besides regular work on them, are ranking well now (you can say out of sandbox) and old sites which were ranking pretty high (without being worked on) are out from good serps.

[HorseCove]

Try it at home - take your blog or article sites where you were enjoying decent rankings in the past but aren't seeing good rankings now and plug that term into Google news and see what happens. I'm working with too small a pool of sites to come up with positive conclusions, but the evidence I have all points to this.

Grumpus,

I'm seeing the same with the Blogs I follow. How interesting.....

[drunk]

One of my sites that has been in the Google sandbox since last May just came out in full force. The site has been ranking well in Yahoo (which I've barely made and effort for) and just yesterday started raking well in Google for a variety of keywords.

After following this site, I totally believe in the sandbox.

Drunk

[Martin C]

I have always thought that the sandbox was site specific, i.e. every website had its own Google sandbox - what I am picking up here is that although there may be multiple sandboxes, either a sandbox contains a number of websites, or they periodically release a batch of sandboxes - is this how I should be picturing it?

For some reason I just thought that Google would be releasing websites from their individual sandbox as a continuous and on going process - with what people are reporting here it seems to suggest that it is done as a periodic update.

I know that the sandbox theory is shrouded in mystery but are whole sites sandboxed or are individual web pages sandboxed? i.e. If after 6 months a website wins a good position (and we agree that it has therefore likely to have been released from the sandbox) would a sub web page that had been optimised for a particular search term and been added the week before benefit immediately - or would that page have its own sandbox?

Anyone like to hazard an opinion?

[bims]

I've just experienced this MAJOR rise too! Long may it last! Site launched about 7-8 months ago!

[Jill]

Martin, I really don't think anyone knew for sure how it worked.

It does appear that there's been a big release of a bunch of sites from the sandbox so perhaps that's how they do it. My fairly new site hasn't come out of it at this point, but I wouldn't expect it to as it's not old enough yet.

Hopefully all those who've been waiting for 12 months will be happy today! Will have to check that SEW sandbox thread to see what they're saying over there.