The Unraveling of Designer Ella * Shopping * Fashion * Blogging * Lifestyle

There is this mysterious and sort of hidden (well completely hidden, you know?) part of Google known as The Sandbox. It fits right in with this month/week (Happy Halloween!) as it is a horrifying concept—or reality—to many who know what it is and most who are stuck within. What is it? New domains (and not all new domains I’ve personally felt) are pushed out of Google’s results and—let’s face the reality—hidden to most of the world.

How can Google do this? Why? It’s to fight spam websites (oh those evil spammers hurt people once more!), but it hurts all the genuine webmasters and bloggers. How many do you think give up on good and hard work because of Sandbox-induced failure? Good sites lost forever. I’m sure it happens.

You see sites sometimes can’t get out until they’re proven trustworthy, and it’s all about links, which largely come from visits. And really now, where do most visits stem from originally?

Oh Google, you are the dictator of the Earth; you hold the power over us!

And one of my blogs is in the sandbox, while its competitors have taken off - not by yards, but by—well, what’s longer than miles? It stinks, for sure. The sandbox can last more than six months, and for my site it has, while I face the truth that getting out is at least a mystery, likely out of my control, and the worst part: might not matter in relation to competition. Everyone else has a head start. And my content isn’t even as new as the domain; it was moved to the new home last December.

This all indeed sounds very stinky doesn’t it? And now we get to the point of this article: there are no tips here on how to get out or what to do, just a lament to share on what it’s like blogging away while in it, because you see, the content needs to be pumped out at the same quality and a good speed all the while (for it’s about links, which is about readers, even though they’re supposed to come from Google). And all the while, is there any real audience?

Not so much. So … what is it like talking to the wall, talking to myself or my imaginary friend; blogging to the sandbox (for it is to the sandbox, most of the effort is in just trying to get out!).

Well, you know what it’s like, because you’ve just read that sentence—it’s lonely. None of the kids want to play with my really cool site, even though I carry the brand name handbags. And of course I’m a *little* (ha, just a little?!) poorer, so maybe not all the same named handbags or as many, but gosh-darn-it, I’m a good person. I write a good blog.

Yes, you know. It stinks.

(What does sand smell like, anyway?)

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