I will be doing a little blog consulting as I write this article.  We are going to have a little discussion about SEO (search engine optimization).  We started the Blog Consulting site five days ago.  We wrote the first article on July 4th (instead of fireworks I thought starting a blog would be a good way to celebrate Independence Day).  Blog Consulting is a very competitive keyword.  There are a lot of sites that are well established and linked on the first several pages of returns.  One of the Blog Consulting sites also produces WordPress themes, and one of the themes is actually used on WordPress.com.  That site has 124,000 links pointed at it.  I don’t plan  on competing with that site.  I would settle to get in just below that site.  Here is what is funny for today.  This brand new site with only one article on it is showing up at the bottom of page 2 in position 20.

The site shouldn’t be there yet and it is just one of those things that happens temporarily with new sites.  Don’t get me wrong, it would be great if it was that easy, but it’s not.  The Blog Consulting site will move backwards and might even disappear from the search results for a while.  This is what is commonly known as being in the Google sandbox.  (It is called that because Google doesn’t like to let the new sites play with the established sites).  So, for today, this 4 day old site is showing up on page 2.  That is why I took the screenshot.  It might be a long time before it’s back on page 2 again, but I am confident that I can get the site onto page 1 somewhere over time.