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Originally Posted by peterko
It's not quite clear about site ranking in search engines for competitive search terms. If I understood you correctly, and based on what I see in SERP, some sites might never reach the certain ranks by the competitive search terms and always stay in the back of search results. Does it mean they always stay in the "sand box"?
Have a great day,
Peter
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No after a year the site doesn't carry any algorithm penalty, (if there is even one), the site will be based off its individual merit. The Ageing delay penalty or sand box refers to a web site that you know SHOULD be ranking much better, but it isn't because it is only 0-5 months old. Have you ever tried to run in the sand, you expend a lot of energy but you don't get very far. There are a lot of other factors involved so no one really knows for sure, but if you have a quality web site that is optimized and you have a lot of good quality inbound links you should rank fairly good. Yes in some highly competitive search terms your site might never rank on the first page, but that doesn't necessarily mean you are receiving a sand box penalty.
No matter what you do you just won't rank well in your first 4 months, that is the "sand box". After that, you are what you are, deal with it and don't blame it on the "sand box".