How are you guys changing up your strategies to account for the 30 day wait period that Google has implemented?
The sandbox is interesting.I did read that aged domains over 4 years can sometimes bypass this... Otherwise, I guess it is just a case of waiting!
Terry Kyle has some interesting insights into the subject...
Bleh I hate waiting
i plan to keep posting new fresh content.
post to social media and encourage my readers to post good comments.
add a few PBN links but not overdo it.
watching to see what happens...but always mixing in paid traffic to supplement.
I ran a ton of tests on this recently on how techiques to reduce it. 10 sites were launched in the same 1 week period in July 2014. All were brand new domains. Different sites were using different techniques to overcome the sandboxing.
Here's a summary of the results:
1) The sandboxing is actually around 2.5 months now for brand new domains (if you use the techniques below). For simply linking from PBN's it take about 3 months. I too had expected 30 days, but this wasnt the case.
2) Social does help get them un-sandboxed faster. Saw an average of 2 weeks reduction in sandbox time with the presence of social signals. You just need some social signals. Going crazy with signals didn't seem to help.
3) Create a FB, Twitter, and YT channel for your site. It will speed things up 1-2 weeks.
4) Add new content each month. At least one page. Also speeds things up, but I didn't have the data to quantify how much.
Hope this helps.
buy good quality old domain that is related to your site and have good and clean links and do 301. That works for me .