Telling if your site is sandboxed

Google sandbox

[junai3]

How do you tell if your site is sandboxed? I launched a site in June with moderate SEO for my main key phrase, and its burried in Google results. However, my site comes up #1 for it's domain name (non competitive). Does this mean it's not sandboxed or is Google sandboxing sites for only certain terms?

[ScottM]

How do you fair with "in the anchor" and "in the title" and "in the text" on Google's advanced search for your most competitive phrases?

If you are quite near the top, that may be an indication. Espescially since you said you launched in June.

[DerekH]

Surely, if your domain name is non-competitive you're likely to be number one?
The fact that you're nowhere special for other terms, I think, doesn't really prove anything.

I'm number one for my name, but that's not down to anything other than I seem to be the only person on the web with my name...
Getting to number one for my chosen search term was altogether harder, and nothing to do with sandboxes, whatever they are, and entirely to do with content, links and a decent site layout.

I'm not sure you've presented a scenario that changes my mind about this box of sand...
DerekH

[ScottM]

I'm not sure from his post that he was saying his keyword was non-competative, just that the domain name was. (As well it should be! Can we imagine 241,745 sites with the domain name "WebmasterWorld.com"?)