Dear DP members, Kindly explain further regarding the difference between google sandbox & penalty? I have already conducted my own research but then I still need your thoughts about this.
Sandbox is also a type of penalty. btw with word "penalty" do you want to know information about "SERP Penalty" or "PR Penalty"??
How to Identify your site is in Google Send Box. below sign indicate that you are in Send Box. (1) The domain is relatively new (usually less than 1 year old, but sometimes as old as 2) (2) Pages on the site are unable to rank for even exact title tag matches (3) Other sites/pages outrank it for search queries with clear navigational intent (4) A temporal cycle in which the site initially ranks quite competitively for relevant queries, then suddenly drops off 30-500+ ranking positions. Google Penalty is for below Reasons. (1) Too many Reciprocal Link Partners. (2) Anchor Text or Link Spam Related Penalty (3) Duplicate Content Issues (4) hidden text or hidden links. (5) employ cloaking or sneaky redirects. (6) send automated queries to Google. (7) load pages with irrelevant words. (8) create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content. (9) doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content (10) mirror pages or sites creation
Thank you so much tstewart for your great reply. Your answer has somehow given me a good idea about it.