Google Sandbox

Before your new blog can appear on the results pages of Google, you must spend some time in the "Sandbox." The Sandbox is the theory where new sites are placed in a holding area in the indexes of Google. Eventually, Google will release your site and will assign your site a PageRank. Most new sites will spend an average of about 3-6 months in the Sanbox.

I'd have to be a Math Professor to fully explain the algorithm that Google uses to rank each page...but I'll try. PageRank is an algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each site, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance to other sites. Things like incoming links to your site, the relevancy of the pages linking to your site and the PageRank of these pages, the keywords that other sites use to link to your site, the keywords on your website in particular in places like page titles and headlines are also used. The numerical weight that is assigned to a site is called the PageRank or PR for short.

The easiest way to find PageRank for a site is to use Google's Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com). The Google Toolbar has a PageRank feature that displays a visited site's Page Rank as a whole number between 0 and 10 for each site that you visit. The most popular websites have a PageRank of 10, the least popular have a PageRank of 0.

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