What is the sand box in SEO ?

[Rammadhur]

What is the sand box in SEO ?

[rajeshparmar]

The Google Sandbox is an alleged filter placed on new websites. The result is that a site does not receive good rankings for its most important keywords and keyword phrases.

Please refer this article: http://www.seochat.com/c/a/google-optimization-help/google-sandbox-frequently-asked-questions/

[sanjalisharma89]

The Google Sandbox Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS).

[Andaman]

Hi,

The Google Sandbox is an alleged filter placed on new websites. The result is that a site does not receive good rankings for its most important keywords and keyword phrases. Even with good content, abundant incoming links and strong Google PageRank, a site is still adversely affected by the Sandbox effect.

[ShreyaKoushik]

The Google sandbox or “sandbox effect” is a filter pattern that Google applies to newly built websites that want to rank in the search results for specific keyword phrases. The filter exists to prevent SEOs and spammers from easily manipulating search results by satisfying all of Google’s major offsite and onsite factors.

[RH-Calvin]

The Google Sandbox Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). In other words new websites are put into a “sandbox” or a holding area and have their search ratings on hold until they can prove worthy of ranking.

[dennis123]

Google Sandbox is the process from Google to put your website in their "sandbox". It means your site won't be found anywhere in your targeted keywords.
How could it happen? If your site is still very new or if your site is a suspected spam site. If your site is still new, just wait for quite some time (let's say 1-4 months) depends on the competitiveness of the keyword before all of sudden they will make your site rank high. For instance you never found your site in top 1000 of your targeted keyword. The next month you will find it in top 20