مايگروســــــــــوفت تراهــن علي وينـــــــــــــدوز‮ ‬7

بعد طول انتظار اعترفت شركة مايكروسوفت التي‮ ‬أطلقت نظام تشغيلها السابع ويندوز‮ ‬7‮ ‬بفشل نظام تشغيلها ويندوز فيستا الذي‮ ‬ركز علي الأمن والخصوصية وجمالية واجهات العرض متجاهلا حاجات المستخدمين والبرامج الملحقة من طرف ثالث‮. ‬
وقد تزامن طرح نظام التشغيل الجديد مع إصرار الشركات علي خفض نفقاتها التشغيلية إلي الحد الأدني مستعينةً‮ ‬بكل الحلول التقنية المتاحة لخفض النفقات،‮ ‬وهو تمامًا ما تعد به مايكروسوفت عملاءها من المؤسسات والأفراد علي حد سواء‮. ‬
ويعد نظام التشغيل ويندوز‮ ‬7‮ ‬الجديد معاجل لجميع الملاحظات التي‮ ‬أبداها المستخدمون حول نظام فيستا،‮ ‬إذ‮ ‬يتميز النظام الجديد بإمكانية تشغيله علي أجهزة الكمبيوتر الأقل كفاءة،‮ ‬ويمكن تشغيله علي أجهزة الـ‮ (‬نت بوك‮) ‬بنفس كفاءة تشغيله علي كمبيوتر المكتب والكمبيوتر المحمول‮. ‬
وقد خصصت الشركة‮ ‬نحو‮ ‬8‮ ‬مليار دولار سنويًّا للأبحاث والتطوير لرفع كفاءة استخدام البرمجيات وتلبية الاحتياجات المختلفة للعملاء في‮ ‬قطاع الأعمال أو التعليم أو الترفيه أو الإنترنت،‮ ‬حيث‮ ‬ًا أن دراسات ميدانية اأجرتها شركات في‮ ‬أمريكا أظهرت أن نسبة توفير نظام التشغيل ويندوز‮ ‬7‮ ‬في‮ ‬الطاقة الكهربائية تصل إلي‮ ‬100‮ ‬ألف دولار سنويًّا،‮ ‬وأن نسبة التوفير في‮ ‬نفقات البرمجيات للشركات تتراوح ما بين‮ ‬30‮ ‬إلي‮ ‬150‮ ‬ألف دولار للجهاز الواحد وفقًا لخصوصية كل دولة‮. ‬
كما ان مكريوسوفت‮ ‬لم تستعجل في‮ ‬طرح ويندوز‮ ‬7‮ ‬بل جاء طرحه السريع في‮ ‬سياق سعي‮ ‬الشركة لتفادي‮ ‬أي‮ ‬مشاكل قد‮ ‬يتعرض لها المستخدم لنظام فيستا‮.‬،‮ ‬ومن المتوقع أن‮ ‬يرفع النظام الجديد مبيعات الكمبيوتر عالميًّا بطرق مباشرة وغير مباشرة،‮ ‬حيث أن وجود تقارب بين قطاعي‮ ‬البرمجيات والأجهزة من شأنه أن‮ ‬يشجع الأفراد علي استخدام الكمبيوتر أكثر وبالتالي‮ ‬تعزيز المبيعات أكثر‮. ‬وفي‮ ‬بيان اطلقته الشركة حول شرح نظام التشغيل الجديد و المقارنة بينه و بين النظام القديم ويندوز فيستا اقرت مايكروسوفت بأن نظام فيستا السابق ركز علي دعم عناصر أمن المعلومات وحماية الشبكات،‮ ‬وهو ما أحدث نوعًا من التعقيد في‮ ‬استخدام النظام،‮ ‬كما تسبب في‮ ‬عدم توافق بعض البرمجيات معه،‮ ‬موكده أن ويندوز‮ ‬7‮ ‬تجاوز هذه الملاحظات بحيث‮ ‬يؤمن النظام قدرًا عاليًا من الأمان مع تبسيط طريقة الاستخدام‮. ‬

How anchor text boosts your search engine rankings

Anchor text: is the hyperlinked words on a web page - the words you click on when you click a link.

Here's an example, reciprocal links, in which "reciprocal links" is the anchor text.

Anchor text usually gives your visitors useful information about the content of the page you're linking to.

Here's why anchor text is so important...

It tells search engines what the page is about. Used wisely, it boosts your rankings in search engines, especially in Google.

If you use "click here" as the words people are going to click on, you're telling people the page is about the subject "click here". If you use "Part 2" as the anchor text, your telling the search engines the page is discussing "part 2".

You wouldn't want to rank highly for "click here" or "Part 2".

Anchor text is so important that it's possible for a page to appear in the top 10 in Google's search results for a phrase which isn't mentioned anywhere on the page.

Some blog publishers have fun using "Google bombing" to get pages ranked highly for humorous phrases. If the phrase is obscure, only a handful of links will win the phrase a No.1 ranking. If it's highly competitive, hundreds or thousands of links might be needed.

[UPDATE: In January, 2007, Google created a new algorithm which reduced the impact of many prank Google bombs, but anchor text is still very important.]

When asking other sites to link to your site, it's a good idea to provide them with the HTML code ready to cut and paste into their page. That way, you choose the anchor text.

However, if your site is all about purple widgets, you don't want only "purple widgets" to be used as the phrase in every link to your site. Over-optimizing like that would create an unnatural pattern.

You can use anchor text in:

• External links - links from other sites
• Internal links - links on your pages
• Navigation maps
• Links on your main page. A very important spot.

Remember that real live humans will read your links as well as search engines, so the words in your anchor text need to make sense!

How a Blog Can Seriously Help Your Business

If your business website doesn't have a blog, get one. A blog, if done right, can act as a direct and indirect mechanism that brings large amounts of qualified visitors to your site, many of whom may become customers. This is mostly related to the way blogs interact with search engines and the traffic I am speaking of will come from search engines, mostly Google. Before I explain how you can do this to help your website, let me first give some background on how search engines work, Google in particular. When it comes to optimizing your website (or blog for that matter) for search engines you must always keep in mind two things: on-page optimization and off-page optimization. On-page optimization is the elements of a Web page that better optimize it to be found and ranked well in the search engines. These elements can include on-page content such as the actual sentences and paragraphs on the page, the headlines (or headers or Hx tags), the links, the links' text, the title tag and much more. Off-page optimization means the things that are done on sites besides your site, namely link-building. Off-page optimization is the process of creating links (or causing others to create links) on other websites that point to your site. Inbound links as these are often called have a major impact on how well you rank in search engines. Generally speaking, the more inbound links, the better. But the quality of the sites with these inbound links, or the way the search engines perceive the sites, is even more important. To rank on the first couple of pages on the search engines requires work on both on-page and off-page optimization. Two additional and important pieces of information that you'll need to understand are related to site content and internal links. Search engines also very much love new, original and quality content, and they like to see your website regularly adding this kind of new content. You don't need to add pages every day, just add pages at the same rate over time. So if you add a page a week to your site, keep it at around that same pace, or increase or decrease gradually. A website can be considered a living entity in a sense. It certainly shouldn't be static. It should grow over time. And the fantastic thing about content is that the more of it there is on your site, the more chances you have of getting found in the search engines.

The idea that inbound links help your search engine rankings that I explained above can be extended to your internal pages as well. In other words, the more links to a particular page coming from other pages within the same site will boost that page's rank as well.

Think of it this way. If you had a ten page site, including a product page and every page on the site contained a link to your product page and, if all other things were equal, your product page would rank higher than the rest of your site's pages (besides the home page which is given a little extra weíght).

Now let's consider what would happen if there were only you and your competitor in your industry (if only that could be true!) and your site still had those ten pages while your competitor's site contained one hundred pages. Furthermore, your competitor set it up the same way as you where he added a link to every page on his site that pointed to his product page. If all other things were equal, his product page would outrank your product page every time. Why? Because he had 100 internal links pointing to his product page and you only had 10.

If you put all these pieces together now, on-page optimization, off-page optimization or link building, content creation and internal linking, can you begin to see why a blog may be a good thing? A blog helps with all of these.

A blog that is regularly updated is providing a mechanism for adding fresh content on a regular basis. Plus, it's so easy to use a blog that anyone can use them, so even if you or your employees don't know a thing about Web pages and HTML, you'll still be able to add new content to your site.

Consider this. If you add fresh, quality content to your blog on a regular basis by writing posts, something the search engines love, and within each post you link to an important page within your site, let's say your product page for instance, you're now building links to help your rankings using your blog. With this additional link your product page gets that much more boost in the search engines.

Remember how I explained that links from within your site help your rankings? Adding links within your blog posts pointing back to your other important pages that you want to rank well is a great way to help your rankings.

And every time you publish a new post, you're giving the search engines one more entry point into your site. Your site will quickly get bigger, and with each new page your site gets more visible.

Keep in mind that the links you make within your blog posts should be relevant. Only link to your product page from a post that has to do with your products. And also, blog posts ought to be useful to your site visitors. The less you talk about your products and instead offer useful, free information that people can use, the more traffíc and repeat visitors you'll get.

Remember that people really don't care about you, your website or your products, they only care about how you can help them. If you sell furniture, a blog post about how to find the best deals on furniture would be far better than a post about how your chairs are the best in the world.

One important thing to remember is that if you plan on creating a new blog for your business as a way to augment your website be sure you put the blog on your actual domain. This means that you would not use a remote service like Blogger.com. Instead, you must have the blog on your business website's address (or domain). For example, if your website address is http://www.yoursite.com/ then your blog should be located at http://www.yoursite.com/blog or http://blog.yoursite.com/

By adding a blog to your business website you are creating a way to get additional traffic. You'll get direct traffic from your posts, which get indexed by the search engines and drive traffic to your site from searches. And, you'll get indirect traffic from your other site's pages ranking well in the search engines because they have links pointing to them from your blog posts.

You'll be regularly adding fresh content to your site, which search engines love, thereby creating more ways to be found in the search engines at the same time. And each post provides a new chance to create a link or two to other pages and blog posts on your site, thereby boosting those pages' rankings.

Like I suggested at the beginning, if your business website doesn't have a blog, go get one.

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Typically, most hosting infrastructures are based on the paradigm of using a single physical machine to host multiple hosted services, including web, database, email, FTP and others. A single physical machine is not only a single point of failure, but also has finite capacity for traffic, that in practice can be troublesome for a busy website or for a website that is experiencing transient bursts in traffic.
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7 Tricks to Get a Gooooooooogle of Links

SEO is a race. And in any race learning from your competitors makes you a better runner. Even when you're running first it's sometimes good to look back and check the runner-ups. And if you're not the yellow jersey guy, you absolutely should examine the leaders: their gear, their training, their strategy. In SEO the most interesting thing about your competition are their links.

Whether you like it or not SEO is still pretty much about links. Good link profile can make up for almost any lack of optimized content and other onpage flaws. Love or hate, the best thing you can do about it is embrace the fact and run with it.

So let's go through some tricks that will enable you to look deeper into your competition's link profile granting you access to the restricted areas: their locker room, dirty laundry and even the briefing hall where they plan their link building strategies.

Let's Talk Competitive Link Research

Finding out where your competitors' links come from is not all that hard. You just go to Yahoo! or Google and type in link:www.your-competitor.com to get a list of inbound links to the site.

Yahoo's much better in that respect as it tends to give more extensive and accurate data. The problem here is that there's a limit of 1,000 links per website which is often not enough as the fattest link sources get left behind the limit fence. Here're some tips to break through to the other side.

Note: If you're lazy like me skip to the end of the article where I'll share a tool that does it all much quicker.

Trick 1: Search for Links to Particular Web Pages of a Competing Site

Alongside with link:www.your-competitor.com search for

link:www.your-competitor.com/products.html or
link:www.your-competitor.com/services.html

and so on.

Trick 2: Exclude Internal Links

You may examine the internal linking structure of your competition if you want to gain some insight on their navigation and marketing steps. But as we want to find more external links, let's exclude the internal ones.

You can do this by adding -site:site.com operator to your search query. Type in:

link:http://www.your-competitor.com -site:your-competitor.com or
linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com -site:your-competitor.com

and you'll get a list of external backlinks only.

There's a dropdown option in Yahoo! site explorer that does the same.

Trick 3: Exclude Links Coming from Certain Domains

The -site: modifier lets you exclude links coming from specific sites. So, whenever you see a large chunk of links coming from the same domain add -site:thisdomain.com modifier to your query and the links from this site will get replaced with new ones.

You can add -site: multiple times in one query so that you have something like this:

link:http://www.cnn.com -site:cnn.com -site:en.wikipedia.org

Trick 4: Check Links Coming from Certain TLDs

This is a little known trick. The site: modifier actually lets you get a list of links coming from domains with certain TLDs: .com, .org, .edu, .co.uk and so on. Just type in

link:http://www.your-competitor.com site:.gov or
linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com site:.gov

and you'll get a list of .gov sites linking to your rival.

Note: Do this in Yahoo! regular search, not site explorer

Trick 5: Exclude Links Coming from Certain TLDs

This is an even lesser known trick. You can exclude certain TLDs from the results with the -site:.tld modifier. Usually the biggest chunk of links comes from .com's so add a -site.commodifier and you'll get lots of new link data.

Try link:http://www.your-competitor.com/page.html -site:your-competitor.com -site:.com
Or link:http://www.your-competitor.com site:.org -site:wikipedia.org

Give it a thought and I'm sure you'll come up with lots of ideas. Feel free to share your findings in the comments.

Trick 7: Use the Above 6 Tricks in Different Search Engines

Don't limit your searches to Yahoo! and Google, go to AltaVista, Alexa, (Bing doesn't give you link data, so forget about it) but then there're Exalead, Excite and tons of regional search engines. Search them, get rid of the the duplicates and you'll have a goooooooooooooooogol of competitor's links to study.

Note: Some search engines have a different set of operators so you'll need to type domain:instead of link:.

Getting It All Done Fast

This sure seems like a lot of work and it is. Moreover, getting the links list is only the beginning and the easy part of competitive link research. Once you get the list you need to analyze each link, weed out poor quality sites and only leave the ones you can get a link from. Now THAT's a lot of work.

I'm too lazy to do this all by hand, besides I value my time too much to waste it on such kind of work. That's why I use SEO SpyGlass an advanced link analysis tool that employs all the tricks described in this article (plus some more advanced ones I don't even know) to get up to 25,000 links per domain, which is much, much more than any other tool can get.

SEO SpyGlass also finds all the data I need to analyze the links:

• Google PR of the domain and linking page
• The URL and title of the linking page
• The anchor text and description
• Whether the link is still on the page (sometimes the link gets removed but search engines will
think it's there till they reindex the page).
• Whether the link is no-follow or dofollow
• How many other links are on the page
• How much link value the link passes
• And some other data like TLDs, domain age, country, etc.

If you want to do competitive link research seriously, I'd strongly recommend trying SEO SpyGlass out. And of course you can always use my tricks whenever you want to run a quick background check on that new guy on your block.

Note: This article first appeared on Site-Reference.com

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اطلاق النسخة الجديدة من
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من أهـمّ الجديد في نسخة

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2. تغيير الواجهة - الاستايل الافتراضي - بتصميم جديد سريع التصفح
(بدون table ولكن كلها css وتتحكم بشكل كلي فيها من لوحة التحكم )

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علـيها مباشرة في صفحة مخصصة بدلا من المرور بالــموضوع المحتوات فيه
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Powerful Template Engine: Ability to create multiple styles which can be applied to different pages, articles, forums, users, or even the smallest box.
Language and Phrase Manager: Allows you to easily translate your forums in any language.
Unlimited Section/Site Structure Hierarchy
Article and Static HTML Page Publishing
Easily Publish Custom Widgets
Enable Community Members to Write and Publish Articles
(updated) WYSIWYG Editor
Inline Publishing Toolbar
Flexible Content Layout
Each Section can have unique layout and style
Publishing Options
Permissions can be applied to Articles, Pages, Sections, User-Groups.
Set Future Publish Date/Time
Set Article Display Order
Assign Articles to multiple Categories.
Tag Support.
Turn Comments On/Off for each article.
Article Status (Published, Inactive)
Assign article to multiple categories
Set Articles to publish on the Front Page
Custom statuses for articles (active, pending, headline)
Internal search engine for advanced searching of site content
Article Tags
Cross-Publishing Capabilities
Promote a Forum post to an Article with link back.
Promote a Blog post to an Article with link back.
Create a new forum thread in the Forum.
CMS Admin Tools
Content Manager
Category manager
Section Manager
Layout Manager
Grid Manager
Widget Manager
Unified Permission System
Community Management Tools
User Management
User-Group Management
Social-Group Management
Powerful Moderation Tools
Inline Moderation Tools
Administration / General
Minimal training required - fast learning curve
Visitor and Comments Statistics
Download and install additional assets such as templates, plug-ins and widgets directly from control panel
Web-based Style/Template Management
Inline Administration
Asset Management
Content Scheduling (Publish Articles in the Future)
Themes / Skins
Universal Search
Single Search finds what you are looking for across your entire website including Articles, Blog posts, and Forums, guests comments, and user-groups.
Template Engine and Layouts
Proprietary template engine
Templates / Skins
Design independent - can support any web-page design
Full CSS layout and design
Sitewide templates: you can create entire site using default set of templates
Multiple templates: you can create individual templates for every section, page or even the smallest box
Powerful, fast and suitable for robust development
Add-ons and Plug-ins
Easily extensible through a plug-in architecture and variety of accessible plug-ins
Comments
Full-featured user commenting system
Anti-spam protection (CAPTCHA, bad words, flood protection, IP ban, posting by registered members only...)
Default Widgets
Recent Forum Posts
Recent Blog Posts
Recent Comments
Recent Articles
Friends Activity Widget
Section Navigation Widget
Category Navigation Widget
3rd Party HTML Widgets (i.e. Google Gadgets)
BB Code Widgets
Poll
RSS Widgets
BLOG FEATURES
Fast Start
vBulletin Blog makes it simple for community members to create their own space within the community. Getting started is as simple as posting the first message (using the same familiar vBulletin editor). There is no lengthy setup process - blog owners are free to personalise their blog at any time by defining a title and a description that will appear at the top of every blog post.
Fully Featured
It is a feature-rich blog application, with support for fully formatted WYSIWYG posts, attachments, comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, draft posts and categories, as well as seamless integration with the overall vBulletin system.
Blog Home Page
Available via a single click from any vBulletin page, the blog home page aggregates activity from all member blogs into a single page – with information about the most recent and highest rated blog posts, recent comments, a featured blog post (selected by the administrator or at random), full support for browsing posts by date and overall blogging statistics.
Syndication and Subscriptions
Site wide and per-blog RSS feeds allow syndication to external readers, and full support for vBulletin subscriptions enables users to join their favorite blogs and receive regular email updates.
Profile Support
Member blogs are integrated with the vBulletin profile system – profile information is displayed alongside blog posts, and existing profile pages are enhanced with information about blog activity.
Blog Control Panel
The Blog Control Panel empowers members to control every aspect of their blogs, from permission controls (who has access to view and comment on the blog), to full management of blog categories, draft posts, trackbacks/pingbacks and subscriptions. Blog owners also have the ability to moderate comments on their own blog.
Full Control
Integration with the vBulletin usergroups permission system allows site owners to regulate which users are able to create blogs, and enhancements to the vBulletin admin control panel give administrators total control over the whole system.
Painless Installation
vBulletin Blog is a plug-in product that can be installed into your existing vBulletin installation within minutes.
Fully Customizable
Blog utilises the powerful vBulletin templating system, and will automatically inherit styles and color-schemes from the forums, for total out-the-box integration.
Anti-Spam
Full support for the Akismet anti-spam service stamps out comment spam.

5 Ways to Improve your Blog

Are you currently writing a blog and struggling with getting organic traffic and / or decent search engine rankings? Don’t worry – follow my 5 Quick Tips below and you’ll improve your blog in no time.

SEO Optimise your Theme

Structure your blog so that it has a well-defined header and footer. Ensure your menu links are made of header tags and that your most important keywords are included in the title and the header tags.

Try and improve your font type and size to make it easier on your visitor’s eye.

Make your Blog Quick to Load

How quickly does your blog load up? Pretty quick you think? Well, the real acid test is how long the search engines take to load your blog. Try a speed test at tools.pingdom.com and check what is slowing your site down.

It might be too many images on your site…or maybe one image in particular that is not optimised and needs to be!

Regularly Add Static Pages

Blogs are popular due to constantly changing information and posts – it’s what brings visitors in. However, don’t forget about your static pages which will inevitably keep your visitors on your page looking for information not contained in posts.

Add Polls or Forums to your Blog

Stick-a-bility – what brings your visitors back? Is it your excellent information on your posts? Is it a daily poll they have contributed to and want to find out the results or is it a forum they are part of and have been notified that someone has replied to their message.

Find out what it is and add it on…plugins for Wordpress can easily give you a range of ideas. Test them out and get your visitors coming back for more!

Post Regularly

There is nothing worse than an out of date blog. Post regularly and ensure your content is interesting!

Google Sandbox Effect

Is your site relatively new? Have you applied all of the best SEO advice you can find, but you're still not ranking? Do you think you may have done something wrong? It might not be anything you've done; it might be the Google sandbox. Keep reading to find out what it is, and how to get out of it.

The Google sandbox or "sandbox effect" is a filter that Google applies to new websites that want to rank in the search results for specific phrases. The filter exists to prevent SEOs and spammers from easily manipulating search results by satisfying all of Google's major offsite and onsite factors.

Signs of the sandbox include:

• The website is outranked for clearly navigational queries (the name of the website with exclusion of www. and .com, for example "seochat").

• Pages do not rank for exact title matches.

• The website ranks well for competitive queries and then drops into no man's land to page 100+ of the SERPs, or does not show for targeted keywords at all.

• Site ranks well in Yahoo/Live, but not Google.

There is an important difference between the sandbox and deletion from Google's search results. While the sandbox and a Google ban can seem to be very similar, they are not. The sandbox is a filter (or so SEOs say) used by Google to prevent new websites from taking top spots on search results, while a Google ban is a complete exclusion of the website from the search results. To find out whether your website was banned or was placed in the sandbox, simply search using the following command:

site:www.yourwebsite.com

If Google shows pages from your website, it means you were sandboxed.

If you get the following message: "Your search - site:www.yourwebsite.com - did not match any documents." - then you're banned. If you've been banned, contact Google with an inclusion request, but make sure to clear out all the elements that might have caused you to get banned first.

What Can I Do to Get Out of the Sandbox?

You are not going to like the answer. Nothing. The only way out of the sandbox is to wait, however long it takes Google to release your website. How long? The answer varies, depending on who you listen to. On average you will spend six months in the sandbox. The only thing you can and should do in the meantime is develop your website.

Use this time to create content, add pages, tweak your site's design and add in all the elements that constitute a high value destination. Look at the sandbox as the opportunity to take a website to the next level before it takes competitive spots on search results. Research your customers, find out what they value in the website and what they want to see, then take the time to develop it - be it content, tools or resources.

Why Does the Google Sandbox Exist?

Engineers from Google have officially confirmed the sandbox effect. Matt Cutts in particular has stated that what is perceived as a the sandbox is an algorithmic effect, while Aaron D'Souza have confirmed the sandbox itself, at least in the way search engine optimizers perceive it. So what's the purpose?

Many spammers and SEOs create perfectly optimized websites, place links on those websites, and match the titles, content and other elements. In many cases those websites do not contain anything that searchers would consider helpful and useful; in fact, in most cases such websites contain nothing useful and are created for the sole purpose of taking top search spots.

If Google allowed those websites reach the top of the SERPs, the quality of its search results would go down, and user experience with it. Thus it came up with an artificial filter, which we now know as the sandbox.

Sandbox Effect and Age Filter

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New Domains vs Old Domains

It is a lot easier to rank old domains than new ones; however, when it comes to the sandbox, both new and old domains can get flagged. Here's what I've noticed from my experience. These are my theories rather than facts, so take everything with a grain of salt and do your own testing.

Case One - Ranking an Old, Unoptimized Domain with Old Content

There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of websites sitting on old domains, with aged content. Their problem is lack of basic onsite and offsite search engine optimization. For example, let's take an imaginary auto dealership website owned by Joel. Mr Joel, being a bright entrepreneur, bought a website as soon as he opened his dealership, and placed his URL on all business cards, contracts, pens etc. He basically dropped the URL wherever he could. Years have passed and his business has been doing well. Recently, Joel discovered search engine optimization and decided to take top spots on the search engines.

In the case of Joel we have an old domain to work with, along with old content and old pages. The content sitting on the domain is closely related to Joel's keywords (which would be "car dealership" "cars" etc), and Google knows about it. Joel is not ranking simply due to lack of links and onsite SEO.

With both onsite and offsite SEO implemented Joel goes to the first page without any barriers and without getting sandboxed. Why? Because his old domain had old content that was on the same topic as his targeted keywords, and Google was aware of it. Joel did not rank before because he lacked offsite and onsite SEO. In other words, not many changes were made to the site, and Google was perfectly aware of the core topic.

Case Two - Ranking Old Domains for a New Phrase

Sometimes you purchase an old domain with a good link profile and start ranking it. You add a couple of pages, align titles with targeted keywords, throw in some copy and wait for results. The site shows up well on Google for a targeted term, but then goes into the sandbox after a few weeks. Why? Here's what I think happened.

Let's look at some factors. We have an old domain, with several good links from authoritative domains. In most cases those links have nothing to do with the topic you're after (no keyword relevancy) and only pass PR power. When you add new pages and target some keywords, you're showing out of the blue to Google in a topic category you've never gone for before. Google takes notice, realizes you're a new website in that category and throws you into the sandbox. In a sense, an old domain is being treated like a new one, because the domain is new to the category and Google is aware of it.

Once the domain is out of the sandbox, however, it does have an advantage over completely new domains.

Case Three - Ranking New Domain

When ranking a newly-registered domain, do not expect any quick results. This is a fact, and we must live with it. New domains are placed into the sandbox for a probationary period. If Google allowed new domains to rank quickly, spammers would have a much easier time ranking.

The Only Way Get Out of the Sandbox Faster

Many SEOs on forums have stated that they got out of the sandbox right after they got links from highly authoritative domains in their industry. Sometimes it was just one link; in other cases, it was several links.

From that we can conclude that the only way to speed up your site's exit from the sandbox is to get links from trusted domains.

Taking Advantage of Other Domains to Avoid the Sandbox

I have not tried this strategy, but it works according to some SEOs. If you want to launch a new website, but do not want to wait for the sandbox, then register a sub domain located on a trusted domain. New subdomains may avoid the sandbox altogether or have a considerably shorter stay. Just make sure the domain itself is good and trusted.

Another way to avoid the sandbox is to target less competitive keywords.

More Information on the Sandbox Effect

Rand Fishkin of SEO Moz has a very insightful post about the sandbox.

According to Rand of SEOMoz.org, you never "pop out" alone. It seems that Google has certain internally triggered events where a bundle of sites suffering from this issue all "emerge" to their expected rankings on the same day. You'll sometimes see forum threads and chatter about these "sandbox releases."

Another interesting statement: it seems you can lengthen your stay in the box by exclusively attracting the more typical "low quality" links that signal manual link building campaigns, such as built-for-SEO directories, article submission sites, reciprocal links, dofollow blog comments, forum signature links, etc. (this is speculation on my part, and more correlation than causation, IMO).

Also, once in the sandbox, avoid endless title, content and link tweaking. Just make sure you're not overoptimizing (titles too aligned with internal links, etc) and let Google do its thing.

The sandbox can drive you nuts if you don't have patience. Again, focus on site development during this period, or purchase AdWords and start conversion optimization, so when the site finally ranks, you will have a streamlined conversion path.