I have a sandboxed site that is #1 and #2 in allinurl, #11 for allinanchor, allintext Should I expect a good placement once we clear the sandbox?
As we say in Canada, Too fucking true! I don't see Shawn and Minstrel in here claiming that Google isn't broken any more. Strange don't you think? This isn't even a matter of "my site doesn't show up top ten any more". This is Googles' records are totally screwed. They don't know allinanchor or allinurl or any site related parameter. These thing don't take a judgement to be made about relevance. These are just pure statistical reporting and they are so far from being accurate on these things that the only possible explanation is that their system is horribly broken.
My experience has been that specific anchor text bls has driven my site up for a variety of keywords. First bls, then increases in allinanchor, then increases in serps. Pretty much that is all I've done for higher serps. My business competes for phrases where there is not a lot of competition in this context. Consequently this limited strategy has worked well. If allinanchor is plummeting for a bunch of sites then big G is dramatically changing things. Dave