I have no trouble promoting my sites and getting index and ranked well in Google but I have one site that I cannot even get to budge for any keyword does that mean i am in the proverbial sandbox?
Was it banned before you got it? Check to see if it was a spamming site. I had one like that I had to contact google and I dunno if it was just time or thier doing but after 4 months it is listed again...
I dont think it is that competitive and I am pretty good at even building sites that have competitive keywords , it just seems like none of my link building techniques are working for Google right now