Google penalizes sites for having duplicate content?

Tried it many times in different languages and never got a response, neither got the site re-established. Once a site is sandboxed you might as well start over. It's not coming back.

.... Once a site is sandboxed you might as well start over. It's not coming back.

Most people use "sandbox" to mean the period between the flash of fame as new content, and the couple of months when it then disappears before finding its rightful place in serps.

Being "penalised" is the permanent disappearance.

it actually is a place between 50 and 100 depending how strongly frequented the keyphrase is. At least this is my experience after many years of internet marketing and seo for my own sites and for customer websites. Once the site drops out of the top 100 it's entirely penalized and not sandboxed anymore. I don't think there is a way back from there other than starting over more carefully.

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