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18Aug/100

Sand leaking out of Google Sandbox?

Holidays have been upon us and as a result the blogging died off a bit. One of the good things with the holidays is I don't get a chance to run the analytic tools we use every 5 mins. My holiday is always in a location where computers are rare and the internet simply does not exist.

So it is great to come back from holidays and get a screenshot from one of our clients showing that they are coming back out of the Google sandbox from the MayDay update. So they track 20 odd words where they WERE in the top 20 for most of them back in May - but all were in the top 100. Since the May update they had to change the settings to cover the top 1000 where there was nothing. However some of the slightly longer tail words are back on the screen at 60 and 250. These 2 words came back in the last 2 days. What an exciting screenshot that was to have in my mailbox when I got back.

Just for the record the reason we think that the site was sandboxed was mainly because of duplicate content. ½ the content was duplicate before they joined us and heard about what duplicate content is. Since that time back in December 2009 all new content has been unique. Also since May there has only been a very small amount of link building done to target other keywords (in case that was the reason) it made no difference. Also back in May the sites homepage was changed around a bit to see if it was an internal linking issues.

Finally no new content has been added and no old content has been changed since May. This site lost 90% of its traffic overnight and then was not worth the effort of rewriting.

So is this the start of a recovery? Has the rain washed some of the sand out of the Google sandbox?

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