Incubating New Blogs to Shorten Sandbox Wait?

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Does anyone know if this works? Or is it pointless?

Basically I am wondering if it makes sense to start a blog now and add a few articles just to get it indexed and to start the sandbox waiting period, so in 6-8 months when I'm ready to start really focusing on it I won't have to wait as long.

Does anyone do this or is there a reason not to?
 
MAKE MOAR CONTENT NOW
ZOMG STOP EXCUSE MAKING STOP WAITING

U seriously gonna only start writing after you start ranking?

Hows google gonna ever figure out to start ranking u?

ur never gonna rank bub. just give up now if this is your attitude.
I see why Carters going insane. Holy mother of cope.

Here is how you make money on the internet.

MAKE CONTENT.

Publish it ANYWHERE

Make more.

Promote your old content with your new content.

Stop making EXCUSES to wait.
 
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Who cares if there is a sandbox.

You can sit around and map every little subset of googles indexes or you could spend that time making and posting content consistently anywhere you can find an audience and build up a public identity associated with what ever your line items are.

Hub spot is the magical marketing SaaS category leader because they actually get their users to make content instead of twiddling their thumbs with technical mumbo jumbo and ocd forecasting.
 
The SEO play is to just keep publishing and keeping morale high while nothing happens for 6-9 months. This is difficult to handle if you haven't seen it be successful before and imo there is now a false myth that you can just publish garbage content, not promote it, not linkbuild, and expect to earn, as long as you target easy keywords.

In my view, the "publish crap, but publish" method is now a bubble waiting to pop. It worked, but now it is played out and you will see less and less profit and it will take longer and longer to achieve it.

I've seen people not even be profitable (earnings - new content cost) after 12 months. How long of a time to break even are we talking here? It's one thing if you're targeting very profitable keywords and niches, you can wait and expect to be profitable, but if your method is based on low hanging fruit and cheap outsourced content, then it's seems to me this is a razor thin margin, when considering the risk of a google update.

I'm personally focusing on topics and sites, where I can set myself aside enough to promote it with ads or with getting traffic leaking and social media shares and press contacts.

The eureka moment for me was when I realized that my thoroughly researched and presented content was good enough to be profitable with PPC. If you can earn from PPC with your content, then you can cut out the uncertainty and waiting period and spend the PPC profits on linkbuilding and more content.

I realize this is way more difficult to do if you're running Amazon, but I'm sure there are niches and keywords that can make this happen. I would probably look into converting to Amazon at a break even or small loss first, then take that data and try to set up some deals with other vendors based on that data.
 
@ew3, The real question is are we talking about domain age since indexation or page age since indexation? Does each page have it's own age and maturation process? Yes, I believe so.

Say you create a new site on a new domain and publish 5 pieces of content and wait a year. At that year mark, you publish another 5 pieces of content.

You now have 5 aged pieces of content and 5 un-aged ones.

The only way to bypass this aging process on new content is to become authoritative and trusted. While some of that comes through age, it largely comes through links and brand signals and topical authority, all of which tend to come through more publishing.

In SEO, you don't grow as you age. You grow as you both publish and age. Each piece of the puzzle needs to age, including backlinks.
 
secretagentdad said:
MAKE MOAR CONTENT NOW
ZOMG STOP EXCUSE MAKING STOP WAITING

U seriously gonna only start writing after you start ranking?

Hows google gonna ever figure out to start ranking u?

ur never gonna rank bub. just give up now if this is your attitude.
I see why Carters going insane. Holy mother of cope.

Here is how you make money on the internet.

MAKE CONTENT.

Publish it ANYWHERE

Make more.

Promote your old content with your new content.

Stop making EXCUSES to wait.
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This isn't what I mean really.

What I mean is would it make sense to start writing now for a blog just to get Google familiar with it and to begin gauging whether or not it trusts it, so that later when I'm ready to increase publish rate and velocity, there is less of a long drawn out sandbox period and pages/posts begin to rank more quickly and predictably.
 
ew3 said:
This isn't what I mean really.

What I mean is would it make sense to start writing now for a blog
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YES
and don't stop.

Stopping is how you fail.
 
Write, but don't write crap.

I'm not sure if Google has that capability and how it would work, but don't train the algorithm to associate your site with crap.

If we're talking placeholder content, then I have good success with creating curated lists and the like. Something like "Organisations for sports fishing in Florida".

Non-commercial content that links to topically relevant, but not competing, pages.
 
I'd pick crap content over no content. You can always rewrite or just remove it. Your site isn't permanently damaged because you started out with some filler content (assuming its niche relevant, don't publish viagra stuff). So a few months old site with some content is better and might rank faster than a completetly new website.

But like @secretagentdad said don't worry too much about the sandbox and don't use it as an excuse to not publish.
 
I would just take the time to write decent articles- why not? Sit down Monday-Friday, write 1 high-quality article per. day. Do this for however many weeks you want- 1, 2, etc. Then, publish the posts and let the website sit.

Why be lazy? The amount of time you'll waste going back and improving articles that wouldn't have had to be improved if you just took the time to write decent articles will far outweigh the time spent just writing good content up front.
 
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