An SEJ Reader send in the following question :
What’s a Google Sandbox? How long can it last for a brand new site? Is there any way to avoid it? Is it niche specific?
Well, let’s first start with the theories behind the term “Google Sandbox”. It appears webmasters understand it as two a bit different phenomena:
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J.K. Rowling gave the Commencement Address at Harvard this year. Two killer quotes:
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly...
Google Trends announced a cool new feature for determining the relative search volume between keywords:
Suppose you own an ice cream shop and don't know which flavors to serve, or suppose you're responsible for stocking supermarkets across the country; Trends can help you explore the popularity and seasonality of your products. To conduct your own, more detailed analyses, you can now easily export Trends data to a .csv file.
How can you use this data to build your...
Philipp Lessen pointed out that Google now offers a link in the search results to skip intro on flash intro pages.
Philipp also mentioned rumors of a Google Browser from February.
Google also launched a major offline advertising campaign in Moscow, hoping to gain market share on Russian search leader Yandex.
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360 Enterprises Inc, which is the parent company of TextLinkBrokers.com and SponsoredReviews.com, has acquired HybridSEM.com, an SEO and social media firm headed by Joe Whyte, who has been a contributor to Search Engine Journal.
“Access to 360’s resources...