I overheard some people talking about their site being in the Google sandbox... What in the wide world of sports are they talking about?!
Sand box is a google quality filters stops your site for indexing high for a competitive keywords for certain period of threshold..for less competitive keyword there is no sand box problem..
You couldn't Google it or use the search function on this forum? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_Effect
A new web site is hard to have a good rank within a few months, even not in the rank ,we call this as Sandbox. The Sandbox usually lasts six months, the new web site should perfect every aspect within the six months. After the Sandbox, better rank will appear.
True.Sandbox does not exist as far as i am concerned.Google just takes a lot longer than other major search engines to rank your site. Everyone is focussing on Google,so it makes sense that your site will take over 6 months to improve its ranking on google