Anyone remember when you added -dsa -dsa -dsa -dsa -dsa -das -das -dsa to the end of your search, the sandbox was lifted? It's back!

Just add -sdfsdfq -ddsf -dsfsqdf -dqdfqsdf -dqfsdfqsd -sqdfqsd -sdfsdqfqsdf -sqdfqsdfqs -qsdfqsdf -sdfsqdfqsdf -sqfqsdfqsd -sdfqsdfsq -sdfqsdfsdf -qsdfqsdf to your keywords and - poof - no more sandbox.

I'm in the top 50 for most of my KWs with this trick - totally AWOL without it.

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Wow that's amazing - how'd you figure this out ?!

holy shit...
if this is true, then i am in top three let alone top 10 in all of my KWs except for one which is #8! Right now i am somewhere down in the 300-400s.

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How it works? hum plz explain with an example, I am unable to understand.

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yep, put my sandboxed site squarely at #1. dang! would love to see that be real.

added: so, this clearly tells us that we are filtered for something. now, that something could be as simple as age, but could be anything else too. the next time someone says there's no sandbox, tell them maybe not, but there is at least a filter, so if they prefer, then they can call it a filterbox. Whatever...we are in it...and we can see where we would be if we were not.

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I'm still concerned. I included those tags but I'm still back at #251 for my primary keyword and further back for my secondary. Both of them rank first page in Yahoo and MSN.

I saw numerous press releases and even a wiki page ranking much, much higher than our home page.

For me, this won't be the magic trick that will score me a huge traffic increase.

Hahahahaha!

I was adding only one '-sdfsdfq' rather than the whole string "-sdfsdfq -ddsf -dsfsqdf -dqdfqsdf -dqfsdfqsd -sqdfqsd -sdfsdqfqsdf -sqdfqsdfqs -qsdfqsdf -sdfsqdfqsdf -sqfqsdfqsd -sdfqsdfsq -sdfqsdfsdf -qsdfqsdf" to the end.

Good news! Now I'm number ONE.

I'm with dazzlin - make it true Google

Ok, thinking back - this was just like Florida. Now there were tons of theories about Florida, and some were strongly in the "you over-optimized the site" camp, and I forget now what all else was theorized. Whatever the case was, the two sites that got smacked in Florida of mine - they regained their rankings a couple of months later without me doing much of anything. (On one site, I removed some keywords from some alt tags - the other site i did nothing to). In any case, anyone with a better memory than me, might want to remind us the possible Florida theories, and maybe some of those can be looked at the for the sandbox too. I'll do some searches and try to refresh my own memory as well.

Ok, the old memory is being refreshed. Hilltop, TSPR, authority links, blah blah blah.

Right, I remember it all so clearly now. Ok, I don't see any of this as being relevant to the sandbox, but because the -asdfsdff thing works for the sandbox just as it did for the Florida update, I thought I'd just remind everyone about it. But just in case people want to refresh their memories on Florida, here are some links...

http://news.stepforth.com/2004-news...-plus-one.shtml

http://www.linksecrets.com/pub/florida-report.html

http://www.webworkshop.net/florida-update.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/search...cle.php/3286101

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Dazzlin,

I read through those articles and the thing that stuck out in your post was that you removed keywords from your alt tags. Should I start there?

My alt tags are reason able and reflect the content of the image.

But what if I have ten bullets and each bullet says something like "keyword bullet 1" or "keyword benefit one"?

The thing is though is that I didn't do anything at all to the other site - so I was never sure if maybe they both just came back regardless of what I did or didn't do. Possibly, though, maybe toning down the bullets would help. It's a guess at this point.

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