For those interested in page ranking, the idea of the sandbox is in reality, a holding place Google places your site for several reasons.

The list goes on and the blame is what they refer to as a volleyball effect.  Volleyball is most popularly played as a beach game these days, and the team that can keep the ball in the air the longest is the team that scores the points.

Thus the blame game called the volleyball effect is the argument as to whether or not Google actually does employ a sandbox game with your sites.

Is the term Sandbox just one more excuse for lack of Google Page Rank?

More than page rank itself, the misdirected concept of the sandbox has created the latest list of excuses for why some websites just do not do well.  As a universal truth, this excuse just plain sucks.

If your website doesn't rank anywhere at all with a search egine,it is probably because it has no unique appeal.

For webmasters who believe Google is looking for theme-based websites and will index more of your pages that way, get over it. Google never has initiatied theme-based web sites nor is it likely to.

What has come out  of this belief, is very targeted home pages which in turn, creates more linking back to those targeted home pages.  The other plus is that in creating a theme site, the webmaster is more apt to create better content.

Now that targeted homepage and much better content is what will entice a spider to visit your website.

Try Advertising  and Promotion

New sites most often suffer "link dearth syndrome" - not enough links as well as a lack of good value content.

Link dearth is the direct result of two distinct possibilities. No one has ever heard of you, or people have heard of you but there's not enough value content to uniquely set you apart  from thousands of other similar sites.

Every new business has to start somewhere.  So take the time to learn how to market you and your online business.  There is not much point in just being online, you have to be in demand and that is a marketing excercise worthy of learning.

Fran Klasinski

Gary Ambrose Calls it "YOU insted of ME" Marketing ...

I call it about time honest Internet marketing.

The 95% failure rate in new beginners making a success of their online  business plans have to be the result of the hyped up 'you've got to have this software, belong to this program, join MY specific program if you want to succeed' online offers.

What a way to get an education online the hard way while  incurring business debt!

When a new beginner comes online to start their first business venture, they are totally gullible, unknowing, have very little business education, are desperate for fast income, and 
probably wasted all of two minutes saying 'I can do that" and
jumped off the nearest cliff right into the proverbial mess.

Due Diligence - empty words to most beginners

When you made your decision to create your own online business, who advised you to back off and do some Net reading?   Who suggested you list your interests, your business background, your general knowledge and go search for a business strategy that would fit what you know?

Dollars to doughnuts, you were told that you would succeed in  THEIR business if you did not commit a humungous fear-filled list of no-nos.

Pretty neat huh? Now you are all psyched up to succeed in  building THEIR  business according to THEIR  instructions.  Got to hand it to mentors who use reverse psychology to get YOU to do what THEY want the way they want.

How to Make "YOU" Marketing Work

And the major step? House clean every business opportunity you have joined that has not made you more than a nickel for your time.  If you are not making the promised revenue now, you never will.  Why?  Because you do not know how to nor do you have the time to promote them without discovering the knowledge you will need first.

Major step two?  Take the money you are saving now and invest it in learning from a mentor or mentors who can show you how to fit you into the profit you should be making.It is YOUR well thought out choice of home business you know you will stay commited to and focused on building that will create the success you are searching for.

I am so happy  you are my friend but that does not mean we share common business interests that will build our individual business plans.  When an exciting offer hits your mail box, it is not a must that you just have to join.  If it does not fit your focus, your plans, or leverage your business to the next level  then forget it. Your success  cannot be built on someone else's dream.

Fran Klasinski