I launched a Blogger blog set up to market some affiliate products a week ago, and it hasn't been sandboxed yet, as it rankes #42 for one of the targetted keywords. I haven't done much link building, only submitted it to a few directories that had gotten good reviews from SEO sites, but I have some link buying credits, and I was wondering if using them this early would make it get sandboxed or hurt it's rankings?
well, if you have a site then you WILL promote it. no one can tell when google will put a site in sandbox and when it will come out if it. as long as you market your site in a steady pace, it will be OK. if you submit your site to million blogs and directories in the first month, then there is something wrong. but if you keep submitting your site on a steady pace, then yo are ok. so keep building links and the idea is to keep moving forward