I am wondering if I am out of the 'sandbox'. Why? Well someone hit my site by searching "setting up a wordpress blog" in Google and my tutorial is sitting sixth, with the likes of Problogger.net in second. My site is bearly 6 weeks old, and this is my first go at a Wordpress blog. Now I'm not getting much traffic, average 50-100 uniques/day or so (although I don't think Statcounter is accurate for some reason ), but I am wondering because of this result if I am in the sandbox. Can anyone enlighten me?
I guess you will find out soon enough? If you search for yourself in the next few days and discover you are nowhere to be found in the SERPs then that is it :/
you probably wouldn't get sandboxed on a phrase like that. if you put it in quotes then only about 500 pages which actually contain the phrase so it doesn't have much competition.