I have a site that was started in January. One of my programmers hastily copied the robots.txt info from another site and made an error in it, effectively banning all search engines. I give him hell for it now, some 'programmer' I say LOL It was an honest mistake. Anyway, put up a little content then, but was pulled away by more pressing products. Came back a few weeks ago and saw the mistake, fixed it, etc. Question being: will the three months that Google was dissallowed from the site count for me when it comes to the sandbox aging, or will it begin from when I fixed the robots.txt? TIA.
It's not as easy to determine the answer as you would like it to be. - Sandbox isnt a solid fact but just a theory which makes it hard to give estimates on, and give solid answers to as cases are always vary. - A new site doesnt always have to have the so call sandbox effect your referring to.