How long where you sandboxed?

One of my main sites just got sandboxed today, and I gotta say it sucks. This is my first time ever being sandboxed, and it's actually kind of frustrating considering the fact that I haven't used any blackhat techniques. I've never purcashed a link from another site, I've never spammed blogs or anything like that - still I got sandboxed.

Little information about the site:

The site is a magazine. The domain was created in Januar 2007 and is a member of technett. Technett is a network of sites, linking to each other. We have been doing this for many years (5 years or something). This network has given me 230.000k backlinks from Google, so I have a feeling this got something to do with it, considering that I'm the latest site in the network.

My question is for those of you who have been sandboxed before. How long did Google hold you down, and do you feel that something you did helped you get out of it faster?

 

14 months for a pharmacy site I built. When it came out it was exactly where I thought it would be. Number 3 on the first page.

 

3 years for one web design site.
2.5 years for one software development site.

Both of them are out now. Performing well.

 

Really, is it that long? I was hoping it would take a few days or weeks..

 

I think my blog going to be sandbox forever..aha.. Yep. it takes a long time.After that, you will get benefits from it.

 

I have done 100+ sites in the last 3 years and the longest a site has been what I perceive to be sandboxed was 10 months.

 

Please explain what it means to be "sandboxed" and how it happens.

 

One year out of google might for some be just enough time to take down the entire site! The funny thing about my site, is that I haven't done anything other than whitehat!

Fuck Google.

 

How about this:

 

Mahmood: Technett has been around since 2000 or something, so you would think google have figured out it has nothing to do with blackhat by now! I mean, aren't sites who work together allowed to link each other because Big fucking Google says it's a blackhat?

 

8 months for my site during 2006/2007

 

not been sandboxed for 2 sites.

my first site was sandboxed for like 4-5 weeks.

 

MY GOD......... my site is in sandbox only in a month ,maybe no more less a month.

 

Your site WAS sandboxed for a month, or IS? In that case, how do you know it's only for a month?

 

what is exactly to be sandboxed?

 

pls read on - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_Effect

 

The sandbox effect is actually pretty annoying if you ask me! Do we really need it? If the algo's the sandbox use are so stupid that they can't tell the difference from a blackhat-site and a site that starts of pretty good (again, my membersship in the technett-network) they shouldn't use it, or at least do a manual check before throwing sites in the sand..

 

3 months, almost on the dot. I'm still not sure if paying for inclusion on dir.yahoo saved me from the sandbox - it could have been pure coincidence.

 

4 months. I had an online shop. It was very very ugly.