my site's about 5 months old now and about a week back google began to send me some decent traffic, thought i'd got out of their supposed sandbox and was on my way to getting a steady flow of relevant traffic.....but bang, 2 days later the traffic stops and i'm not there in any of their results....back in the sandbox or banned for some reason? don't think i've done anything to get banned though.....has this happened to others as well?
I would give it a bit more time. Seems that the last couple of months Google is showing three sets of different search results. Be patience.
Newer sites often rank well in Google for a short time then drop like a stone. You'll often see a lot of chat about this in the newsgroup alt.internet.search-engines. For good organic ranking, optimize as best you can and wait, that's the only way, IMO. AmCy
Aside from the normal sandbox issues, Google may temporarily drop your site for other reasons. Chech this out:My Page used to be listed - now it isn't
Your site is a pr4, you have some BLs, it's pretty well indexed in google, so the traffic will come back. I have some sites that are jumping around in the index. When using the co-op network you can also target some keywords to your sites and gain a higher ranking in google. check for more details. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
If you use the DP kwd ranking - you will see your ranking bounce around throughout the day. Also your visitors may not be looking for items on your site consistantly thru the week.
try to be more patient on this.. it comes then suddenly it really will stop but you have to wait... wish u luck!