One of my main keyword is #1 with Yahoo, #3 with MSN and hum #129 with Google. Using McDar Keyword Analysis tool I find that: (When I say competitor, it's one of the top ten ranking) My site has the same PR than 1 competitor More G BL than 4 competitors More pages than 4 competitors More Yahoo BL than 8 competitors My allinanchor for G is #5, 4 competitors are not even found in top 100 allinanchor. Is that a sandbox effect? punishement effect?
if you have a top 200 ranking then its more unlikely that it is the sandbox because you do have a ranking.
I think you're right, I verified 5 KW for which I've a better than 10 position (I'm #1 for 2 of them) with MSN and Yahoo all of them are beteween 150 and 200 with Google. I'm still wondering how long I'll be in the sandbox.
My site got a #1 in msn and #3 in yahoo for the KW .. and i also have a allianchor of #4 in google .. but im still nowhere to befound in google