I've never really understood the sandbox, but i have two new sites, one a couple of months old, and the other about one month old. Both are not listed atall for the main keywords im trying to rank for, although when i do allinanchor: keyword, the older website is on page 2, and the newest site is #4. As i said, both sites are really new but what do you think?
sure sounds like the sandbox. every new domain (made past a certain point in 2003) is subject to the sandbox filter-- just to differing degrees.
i also in sandbox,i use some old sites to seo my new site,create some pages such as "wwwDOToldsite.com/kewords.php" ,now the kewrds.php is ranked much better than my new site(wwwDOT**keyords.com"). Same wwwDOT**keyords.com rank well in msn. BTW .kewords is not competitive at all.
All of those commands from google are not stable to me anyways. And those anchor commands were at one point a very good sign for success and still can be. But there are other factors in competitive sectors: site age, where the links are coming from, links from unique IPs, etc. etc. The big g continues to make it harder and harder to figure out using their own tools.
Yeah i understand the importantance of links, hence why i have links from newsweek, answers.com and some more, theres no doubt i have some decent old links pointing my way
That is a great start keep it going. as mentioned before it willl take a bit of time and then maybe you'll start ranking for some keywords in google. Too bad it is not an aged domain - you would have probably be ranking already !