| What once many people thought they had a penalty, is now being called the Sandbox Effect and is causing new web sites not to rank very well in the search results of Google, not even for the least competitive phrases. Meaning that a filter is being placed on new web sites and cannot rank very high for most words or phrases for a certain amount of time. |
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| Search engines determine their rankings based on two things:
Is your site relevant? (Optimized for certain keywords)
Is your site important? (Many links back to your site from other sites)
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| Google has recently done a major algorithm update, nick named ?Jagger? update series. This article gives an overview of how and why Google needs to update its website ranking algorithms periodically.. |
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| This is the second part of the Google Jagger update discussion.. This article shall discuss the specific areas the Jagger update has altered in the Google algorithm and its possible implications on the search engine rankings. |
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