So my site is just about to turn 10...10 months old and Google shows absolutely NO love for my site. I can honestly tell you I haven't gotten 1 visitor from a google search, ever. Why? That's what I'm trying to figure out. There isn't anything wrong with my site, I rank awesome in MSN for hundreds of keywords and I am now getting about 30+ visitors from Yahoo/day. Why does google not send me any traffic? My site is a PR3 and has over 80+ indexed pages. Any help? I heard the "sandbox" was a 6 month deal...
As far as I'm aware, Google's probation period (or Sandbox, whichever you prefer) can last anywhere from 6-12months, sometimes even longer. You may just be one of the unlucky souls that if forced to linger in the sandbox for the maximum duration.
That doesn't sound like the sandbox if you haven't gotten a single visitor ever, it sounds like a penalty. I have a lot of sandboxed sites and all get visitors from Google, just on very obscure terms where the search happens to be the exact way I wrote the text.