Being sandboxed by google

[youngminii]

Okay so my site (Psychology in Life) was indexed by google, only the home page I think. It came up in Is My Blog Working?
It showed me that there was 1 result from google, and that was site:blahblah

I checked again today and it was gone, I'm not indexed by google anymore. Doesn't that mean I've been sandboxed? I was indexed one moment and the next I'm not?

Oh dear God

[Nathan]

No it just means that your site is so new that things are still being adjusted. They'll even out eventually and then you'll show up again.

And anyway, I gave you a blogroll link on my fairly popular and well ranked Experiment Garden, so that will soon be giving you some extra link juice as Google crawls my site and discovers that link to you.

You just have to wait a few weeks for things to even out and for Google to decide where you should stand. In the meantime keep posting regular quality content.

[youngminii]

Phew, just me overreacting then

Hey I've been filling my tags with the same keywords, words that are popular on google. Should I stop doing that and spread my tags around to the relevant posts?

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by youngminii

Phew, just me overreacting then

Hey I've been filling my tags with the same keywords, words that are popular on google. Should I stop doing that and spread my tags around to the relevant posts?

Tags should relate to what's actually in the post

You shouldn't be tagging posts with words or phrases that are not in the actual post content

There are plugins that will either list tags from your content, so that you can select the ones you want, or even automatically add them for you

[silverf0x]

I try to type your domain name in google and found your domain in the #1. I think it's fine, your site is not in google sandbox. I think it just need more time to index to crawl your site.

My site in Google sandbox last mont...but now it's not there anymore.

[stephen todd]

your blog site has no description or keyword metatags - that's probably why google threw a wobbly

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by stephen todd

your blog site has no description or keyword metatags - that's probably why google threw a wobbly

As of September 21, 2009 Google has officially said that it does not use the keyword meta tag at all.

Watch the following YouTube video to hear more or read the official announcement.

YouTube - Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

YouTube - Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

[klutze]

Thanks for the vid Nathan, good to finally have a definitive answer.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by klutze

Thanks for the vid Nathan, good to finally have a definitive answer.

Yep this is fairly big news even though most SEO people had long suspected that Google was no longer valuing meta keyword tags very highly.

Now we find out that they don't even use them at all.

But that said, those keyword tags are still good for a few other search engines, so by all means leave them.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by Nathan

But that said, those keyword tags are still good for a few other search engines, so by all means leave them.

Yes, Bing have clearly stated that they use them for ranking, and as Bing now supply Yahoo search results I'm going to continue to use them