By Tinu AbayomiPaul (c) 2005

You have to laugh when you hear about the elaborate schemes people cook up in order to get three or four clicks through to their site, when there are plenty of legitïmate ways to get attention for your web site - from dozens to hundreds of interested prospects. It’s one thing to think creatively - it’s another to try and buck the system for a few hits from people who won’t subscribe, return or buy.

By Mark Daoust

What is the Sandbox?

Before we get too far into an explanation as to what Google’s sandbox is, it must be noted that not everyone even agrees that the sandbox exists. The sandbox is actually nothing more than a theory developed to explain what many different SEO experts have witnessed with their listings. Whether or not the sandbox really exists is actually irrelevant when we know that the effects of the sandbox exist.

WNW Design, the Devon web designers, are proud to anounce that we have now signed over 100 web design clients.

Launched in January 2000, Devon web design company WNW Design, has continued to grow and expand over the last 5 years, with clients in such varied industries as holiday accommodation and health products to commercial lighting and alloy wheels.

The sites in our portfolio range from little 3 page sites giving small businesses their first step on to the world wide web, to large shopping sites that have hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of products available to buy online.

WNW Design Has recently been employed to help improve the search ening positioning for the Western Tyden website.

Western Tydens specialise in spark arresters which are designed specifically for preventing the risk of fire due to the ignition of flammable materials, caused by spark emissions from the exhausts of internal combustion engines.

They are also the sole UK distributors of Engine Control Systems range of industrial and off road Catalytic Cleaners and Particulate Filters (otherwise known as exhaust cleaners).

Western Tydens have had a site for a little while now, but the site has never undergone any sort of search engine optimisation work.

By Scottie Claiborne (c) 2005

You’ve Got To Pay Your Dues

Many site owners and SEOs are worried because their new sites that rank well in Yahoo and MSN, aren’t doing well in Google, and they’re blaming it on the “sandbox.” The current theory is that new sites are somehow being penalized for obtaining too many links, too quickly.

Is There a Sandbox?

By Jim Hedger, StepForth News Editor,
StepForth Placement Inc.

Much has changed since last year in the world of search engine marketing. These changes have widened the knowledge gaps between the SEM sector, our clients and the general public. A knowledge gap separating professional experience and general interest is natural in any industry, as a quick peek under any newer model car hood will demonstrate.

In a field as user-dependent and re-evolutionary as the search industry, knowledge gaps can lead to expensive chaos for consumers, advertisers and web-masters. Many common assumptions about search engine marketing have been made obsolete or require a different way of thinking. Many erroneous assumptions continue to be proliferated in hundreds of forum posts, emails and marketing articles.