This one is mine ;)
There are at least three opinions on the sandbox:
1. It doesn't exist ('my site was never sandboxed')
2. Every site goes to sandbox.
3. Sandboxed sites climb first, drop later then climb again.
As far as I can tell after reading different SEO articles,
there are stories confirming all three opinions.
My site was climbing SERPS up to the day Bourbon started, right
now I am 500+, 400+ or something like that for most of my KW,
compared to 100+ or 80+ before June 6th (or even first 3 for some
very specific search phrases - now 20+).
It occured to me that I can be sandobxed and I was not hit by
Bourbon, just coincidentally I was sandboxed when the Bourbon started.
I was climbing SERPS relatively fast and I was sandboxed few days
after I have made series of changes to my site - changes that should
put me even higher.
And here goes possible explanation:
Perhaps sandbox filter is triggered not for every site, but for sites
that climb SERPS too fast? Thus some sites will be never sandboxed
(or rather the effect of sandbox will be never visible for them, as they
will climb within speed limit) while other will be sandoxed - and sometimes
it will be possible that site climbs relatively fast at first and later
drops down.
Just my $.02
Best,
Borek
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