Me Personally I think it is a myth made up by expert SEO's to make sure that they get paid within 30 days of doing there work. What do you think?
LOL, nice theory. But if you don't believe it, try it. See if you can get ranked for highly competitive terms in the first year after creating a domain.
The Google sandbox must exist. I rank #1 in Yahoo! for our major keyword phrases, but are NOWHERE to be found in Google with the same keywords. However, we are ranked for completely obscure keywords. Can someone shed some light on this?
My site comes up much more frequently in yahoo also...I've read most people claim that it's so much easier to get listed highly in Google vs Yahoo, but not in my experience. The way I designed my site must be much more in line with whatever Yahoo likes than Google.
I find there is always Yahoo bots on my site at any one time and google only come and go through out the day
It's no myth. All I have to say is that I am never, EVER buying another .info - it can't be a coincidence that the only .info I've ever used happens to be sandboxed for half a year now, even though it has 15 "authority level" articles, personally written, with about 25 backlinks (the newest one is a pr7 from the same business category, which is my job's site - I was testing to see if high PR backlink could bring a sandboxed site out) and it still doesn't even show up for a search for it's own domain name...
Sound more like you were penalized rather than sandboxed. As I can tell you I have over 100 .info sites and the newest one http://www.firefoxtweaks.info is already ranking number 5 for "firefox promotion" and page one for alot of other great terms. Being penzaled and not indexed is totally different from being mythically "sandboxed".
We have an info site that has been indexed has tonnes of backlinks but for a year it is has a PR of 0.
I dont think anyone is too worried about PR anymore, as long as you have backinks, indexed, and getting traffic what else matters?
Traffic is all that matters to me. I wouldn't care if all of my sites were PR0, as long as I get traffic.