This morning I got up and was pleasantly suprised to see that my young site appears to have been released from the sandbox. I checked a bunch of keywords, and for my most competitive keywords I was at #50-300 instead of 500+ and for my less competitive keywords I was up to #1-5 instead of 10-30. Now that the day is over, according to google analytics, I got 15 hits from google, compared to 30+ most days the week before, when my rankings were much worse. Does this make sense to anybody?
What KW were being searched for? check search volume for the day, maybe the overall volume was down. Also, keep in mind only a handful of people go past the 1st page on SEs. Example, presidential election searches are hot around 07-08 but drop dramatically 09.