Ok so how long do you think before the age of a domain is irrelevent, my domain is almost 3 months old. When do you think I will see some decent rankings, plus I think I tripped and fell in the old sandbox
3 years are enough to rank well. Everything depends on your SEO now. Make sure that you build your links regularly.
Two of our sites got a big boost at 1 year. When you say you fell in the sandbox, had you changed your keywords significantly or your title tags significantly? Our home website ranked no 1 for the very small town we used to live in, when we moved to Bury St Edmunds and changed all our SEO it took 4 months before we could rank above no 9 for "website design bury st edmunds" - then one day (at about the time our site was a year old) we started creeping up the serps and now we're no 2. I've read that the more commercial your site is the longer the filter/sandbox lasts for. Some people say they last for up to 9 months; other books say your website gets a boost at 1 year. Make sure your internal SEO is tip-top, get all your links and don't lose heart!!