Before discuss on topic we first understand what is sandbox?
Google Sandbox is experts panel for monitor the activities of domain for special time period. They specially check which websites follow the webmaster guideline & who not follow it. Penalized & new domains always have in sandbox for tacking the activities like content, links, images & when website pass the guideline of webmaster, Google removes those domain from sand box.
When you launch new website, need to verify that your website is in Google sandbox or not? It is very easy to check about website is in Google sandbox or not. Using different tools like:
http://pixelgroove.com/serp/sandbox_checker/
https://www.searchenginegenie.com/sandbox-checker.htm
Don’t need to think that “above tools are trusted or not.” Because we just need to know about Google sandbox status.
How this all tools calculate Google sand box status?
If you not want to use tools then try to check following things for know about new domain sand box status:
- Check domain age (how much domain old): If you domain registration show more than 6 month old then it may possible that you website is not in sand box.
- Check the website indexing status and visibility (ranking) for related keywords: If you website indexed & rank then sure, website is not in sandbox.
- Check the webmaster massages regarding hacking, spamming, indexing problem. If you not get any massage within 10 days after the submit website in webmaster, means with website & domain no issue.
If website in sand box what do?
If you find that website is not ranking in search results and find that no traffic than using tools or using above mention methods, you can check website sandbox status & when you get conclusion that website is in sandbox then use following tricks for remove the website form sand box in different cases:
Case 1: Domain is new.
If domain is new than defiantly Google acquire it for monitor the content, links, and images of website. So don’t use black hat SEO (on page & off page) for ranking. & try to use unique content, proper title, headings etc. After you sure that website On page SEO is ok then submit website in google webmaster & check the massages, indexing, crawling status of website. If you not find any error then start link building for website but attention! Don’t do spamming or bulk submission, otherwise chances of improve the traffic or ranking, fail down.
Case 2: Domain is old but website is new.
Sometimes you can see domain age is more than 1 year but when uploading new website on that domain, after the SEO you get no indexing and traffic. In this situation check Webmaster errors & apply to goggle for reconsideration or review. Using following URL you apply for reconsideration:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
using this URL check manual action & if find any error from your side then resolve it first then submit reconsideration request to Google . Take deep knowledge about Google webmaster using following URL:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35843?hl=en
Case 3: Website is old and penalized by Google
You know about your website and find you after analysis that website ranking suddenly down then Check following things before apply for reconsideration:
- Website content (copied or unique), If unique then ok.
- Website back links (relevancy of links), if back links are not relevant then remove the website from them or request for removal to them.
- Check relevant back link who provide side wide linking (placed on every page same link) & remove your website from there.
- Remove un relevant inbound links (linking from your website)
After doing these all work next apply to Google for reconsideration using above mentioned steps.
In these three cases it’s depend on Google webmaster that how they treat your website for indexing, crawling and searching.