The evil Google Sandbox strikes again! :(

Remember a post of mine, less than 2 weeks ago, where I mentioned how this blog was in the Sandbox (and so almost nobody came here from Google, and those that did, came because they searched for stuff the blog is not about, like a misspelling of Sudoku), but my “Games of my Life” blog wasn’t, and actually got great Google results?

Well, in the last couple of days, I’ve noticed in the logs that the number of hits from Google searches almost stopped rising.

So, I went to Google, and googled for the same search terms… and nothing. The blog’s articles are nowhere to be seen in the first page of results.

I’m all for stopping splogs (spam blogs), but I think the Google guys (or their algorithms) are being overzealous. I mean, that blog is 100% original content, and hasn’t suddenly got an avalanche of links from other sites (which is always suspicious).

Oh well… I guess I’ll just have to weather it. It’ll pass, eventually.

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1 Response to “The evil Google Sandbox strikes again! :(”


  1. 1 Daniel Vinagre

    My blog is also in the sandbox.

    An amazing thing to think about is that if google doesn’t know us no one will.

    Google “owns” the Internet.

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