Best Way To Tell Your Site is Sandboxed

Hey there people,

There are a lot of newbies here who want to know if their site has been sandboxed. The general advice is to use the domain name in google search to see if it comes up first. This doesn't work as your website can come up first for the domain name search even if your site is sandboxed.

A better way to check for sandbox would be to use your title tag.

Unless you have a very generic title tag like fat loss, you can simply use the title tag of your homepage in google search.

For example, if your home page title is something like
Collect Rare Coins and Stamps Online Quickly

plug that into Google search without quotes and your site should rank first. If it doesn't, you can be pretty sure that it is sandboxed. Sometimes, your site might come up in the first 20 results or so for generic title tags that might have good competition.

For example, if you have something like
weight loss with the 24 hour lemonade diet

you will probably come up in the first 20 results as there are many websites with similar sort of titles that might have better backlinks.

I hope this was of help to someone.

please explain to me what sandboxing is :?

type on Google -> site:yoursite.com

ZeroByte said:

please explain to me what sandboxing is :?

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mazgalici said:

type on Google -> site:yoursite.com

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Wow - did you two even read the post?

If your site use general keyword and have many competitors. so you can use

intitle:"your title name"

Personally I perfer the site:yoursite.com method above all others as it will return the results with the pages that are indxed in google, so if your site is sandboxed you should not expect to see any (or very few) pages

If you wanted to see if a page was indxed you could do the following search in Google intitle:"your title name" site:yoursite.com

santacruz said:

If your site use general keyword and have many competitors. so you can use

intitle:"your title name"

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yes this is more accurate

type in site:domain is definitely the best way...
if you jus type in title tag without ur site come up first, it might jus go in to severe google dance...after sometime, it will pop back to top page.

typing the domain in google is the way I use to check for sandboxing.

santacruz said:

If your site use general keyword and have many competitors. so you can use

intitle:"your title name"

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This is an interesting one. I didn't know about this search function until now. Thanks for sharing

site:domain.com is how to test for a ban, not a sandbox/dance, whatever you call it.

If your site is not there for site:domain.com, your website has been banned from the google SERPS.

A sandbox/dance is different, keeping you in the index, but pushing you back some pages.