My understanding of the term "sandbox" is that it is a temporary decrease in rank which a site will work out of over some time. It's not really a term that comes from Google. It's a term that comes from SEO people to try to explain what they observe in search engine results. Too many poor quality backlinks and content copied from other sites would be a permanent decrease in rank.
Google does not reveal their policies to a great extent like this sand box. One can be as fair with Google as possible to avoid theiir wrath
Reading this has changed my mind a bit! I was planning to write all my content and then release my site, but if I'm going to end up in the Sandbox anyway, is it best to just develop and add content over time? Is Google playing the game of seeing improvements over time to your website? I think I've just answered my own question, sorry! Cheers Jon
one of my blogs is sandbox by google... I've fixed everything and empty it. and then i submit reconsideration request, but it was still considered as violating google's guidelines. then what's wrong with my blog? what should i do to fix it?
I think a newly created site getting over optimization with quick succession of time cause google sandbox.