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Well I have been very busy over the last 48 hours and haven’t devoted the time I needed.  I do need sleep.  Anyway we didn’t break the page one barrier yet for homes for sale in jackson hole but we did manage to get a second slot on the second page.  I just realized this may be the appropriate time to discuss the “Google Sandbox”.  If you don’t know about the Google Sandbox well you are not alone. Click On The Image To Expand It

Here is the Wikipedia definition:

The Sandbox (a.k.a. Sandboxing or the sandbox effect or the Google penalty) is a name given to an observation about the way Google ranks web pages in its index. It is the subject of much debate—its existence has been written about^[1][2] but not confirmed and several observers state that they have observed the contrary.^[3]

According to the sandbox effect, Google temporarily reduces the page rank of new domains, placing them into what is referred to as its “sandbox”, in an effort to counter the ways that search engine optimizers attempt to manipulate Google’s page ranking by creating lots of inbound links to a new web site from other web sites that they own.

A “reverse sandbox” effect is also claimed to exist, whereby new pages with good content, but without inbound links, are temporarily increased in rank—much like the “New Releases” in a book store are displayed more prominently—to encourage organic building of the World Wide Web.^[3][4]

David George disputes the claim that Google applies sandboxing to all new web sites, saying that the claim “doesn’t seem to be borne out by experience”. He states that he created a new web site in October 2004 and had it ranked in the top 20 Google results for a target keyword within one month. He avers that “[n]o one knows for sure if the Google sandbox exists”, and comments that it “seems to fit the observations and experiments of many search engine optimizers”. He theorizes that the sandbox “has introduced some hysteresis into the system in order to restore a bit of sanity to Google’s results”.^[3]

In an interview with the Search Engine Roundtable website, Matt Cutts is reported to have said that there are some things in the algorithm that may be perceived as a sandbox that don’t apply to all industries.^[5] Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie state that they believe that, while Google does not actually have an explicit “sandbox”, the effect itself (however caused) is real.^[4]

I know that I have shown you that it is possible to dominate the page ranking in Google but I have not told you why.  Well rather than write out a bunch words, I thought I would show you a video I found on YouTube.  It was made in Melbourne , Australia.  It really brings the point home

We have worked hard over the last 3 weeks to test our methods to dominate Google in a niche, specifically the high end real estate market.  In the precess we have uncovered a couple of really interesting things.  The first is all of the chatter regarding the “Google Sand Box”.  The Google Sand Box is a construct created by many SEO companies that says when you initiate a marketing campaign for a particular website that you will be “Sand Boxed” for about a month before you will see results of your investment.  Well we now know that with respect to video the “Sand Box” is nowhere to be found. How can I say that just see the Evidence Here .

The more interesting point of view is that if someone who is not a real estate agent trying to sell homes in Jackson Hole can dominate the first page of Google’s video page.  Why is that important?  Well let me explain.  If I were looking for a home for sale in Jackson Hole I want to see the property or a video of the property.  Since setting up this site, my Google Analytics shows that I had folks from California, Arizona,Louisiana,Oregon,Illinois,Mississippi,Nebraska,Alaska and Australia visiting the site.  Why is that important?  There are folks that are interested in homes for sale in Jackson Hole.  Now how does someone in those locations going to get engaged in the real estate market in Jackson Hole through a static web site.  How do they chose an agent?  They don’t they chose a property and go with the agent.  So the bottom line is that these real estate agents have been so jaded by the fact that they represent luxury properties and they don’t have to do anything but put up a static site and people will chose.  They don’t realize that Internet marketing is a WAR.  You need to dominate to win. We will see if they get the point. You can see the proof here

This is really fascinating.

40% of Google's Video Page is ours in 4 hours