| | SEOmoz | Articles >> 2005 Analysis of Google’s Sandbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | The sandbox has also been observed to typically release sites into "normal" rankings en masse, which is to say that there have been virtually no examples of a single site "escaping" by itself. |
 | | Many suspect that Google initially identifies websites to be "sandboxed" by analyzing commonly optimized components like the backlinks structure, on-page stuffing of keyword terms or phrases, and rate at which inbound links come to the site. |
 | | Manual review is certainly an explanation that fits all the facts, it accounts for both inconsistencies in the application of the sandbox, the widely varying escape times, and even the proclivity of sites exhibiting common SEO traits (optimized pages, links, etc.) to be more susceptible to penalization. |
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