I do agree on this. As per my view all of the sites are sandboxed for a period of time. May be some sitea may stand on a google page 1 or 2 but very soon they also get sandboxed. See, if your niche and keyworda are competetive so it is sure they are to be sandboxed
Still have page 1 rankings sometimes. It will stay there for a few weeks then gone...Then comes back again. Getting use to it now.. I think once I have higher PR IBL's then I will be able to sustain the rankings...Also I had too many of the exact anchor text, and went way too fast when getting Backlinks...
Does anyone here know if dmoz.com has a "sandbox" of some kind? It sure seems like it. It has been years waiting to get listed in dmoz.com!!! Frustration!
I think what Valley means is that you have to have a set plan in place as to how you are to obtain the back links, keyword research, marketing plan, daily routine, , percentage of main anchor text links, Percentage of secondary main keyword links, percentage of third main keyword links, percentage of other natural links (for example click here etc.) percentage of url-non text links also type of links directories, articles, forums, comments, rate of speed of getting Links, Reverse SEO (checking competitors Backlinks[you may have to purchase IBL's to if competition is too much])also quality of links as well amongst other things... I'm sure I'm probably leaving LOTS of things out though.
you can't speed this process, remember, google has to cover the entire internet, index it, rank it, publish it, etc... overburdening google will only cause penalty.