Tips and tricks 266As soon as you have a domain name, create a temporary page and link to it from
another website to make Google aware of your website. The six to eight months delay
starts with Google's first contact with your website. The sooner Google knows your
website, the sooner you'll be listed.
Yahoo and Bing don't have such a delay so don't focus on Google alone but also
optimize your web pages for these search engines.
The sandbox effect is also applied to changed pages
Google's sandbox effect can also affect older web pages when they change the content
of the pages. Details can be found in a Google patent application that is explained on
"http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter154.htm#facts".
Although this patent is very old, the concept was confirmed recently by Google later: