At the beginning of May I redesign my site, but the link structure remain the same. For 2 months I have no problems. Than during my vacation in July, spammers somehow hit my site putting some PHP script that was generating a lot of links, when I checked in Google WM tools there was more than 35.000 spam links on my site. They were restricted by robots.txt. I delete the script immediately, but I'm still in sandbox for 2 months. I use to have 1200-1400 UV, 70% of them from Google, now for 2 months I have about 250 UV, 30% of them from Google. I’m doing regular link building and SEO. I use vivvo.net script which is very SEO friendly. Can anyone tell me what more should I do to get out of sandbox? My site is 18 months old and luckily it’s not banned from Google. When I go site:mysite.com I can see 5010 indexed pages.
1) Have a sitemap for your site. 2) Clean up the code. 3) Validate html 4) Get backlinks from good, old, high pr, related sites. deep inner links are better. Add some links to good related sites. 5) Get the directory submissions done slowly, like 1000 directory submissions in 3 months time. 6) Do link exchange with related sites. 7) Run Xenu to check for broken links 8) Check your site using google webmaster tools 9) Setup a feedback thing, get help from site visitors to make ur site better. 10) Keep on adding original great quality content. 11) Keep on adding original great quality content. 12) Keep on adding original great quality content. Thats it
I'm doing 99% of your list but still nothing. For 2 months only 30-50 visits from Google everyday. I also get PR4 from PR3 in last week PR update. Hope this nightmare will end soon.
I am also doing 99% of that for one of my websites and it is still in the Google sandbox for around 2 months now. I guess it is just a matter of time... it will come out of the sandbox eventually. I just hope its very soon lol.
During the sandbox I'm receiving tons of traffic from Google image search, but almost nothing from Google site search