22 maart 2007
Google Sandbox Effect
When I started a new blog about the moving of our Library, at the request of the library, I asked for a domain on the library website. Starting a blog is allright, but some impact is to be desired. So A http://library.wur.nl/ domain would be desirable.
However installing wordpress on the library server was too much of a hassle.
Posting to a FTP site within the firewall was out of the question, so a redirect was proposed. And how useful that is. Look at the SERP for the simple query [forumgebouw verhuizing]. The first hit in Google is found at our library website whereas the real blog website is only to be found are rank 34 or so.
Just another example that the Google Sandbox is for real. So the bottomline, when you want to use a blog for promotional activities: Start early, or find other means to avoid the Google Sandbox.
Labels: blogging, English, Google Sandbox
