I am really not sure if listing in DMOZ would remove the sandbox filter immediately. Have you had a specific site, that this happened ?
Obviously nothing is immediate but two separate times I have seen sites that appeared to be in the sandbox get into dmoz and then be out of the sandbox when google updated its copy of dmoz (directory.google.com).
Just be careful, you make ur blog grow steadily. Links should be acquired. High authority directories help a lot.
I was just going to ask the same question as completevb.com got stuck in it too... I am thinking building links is the only thing left to do.
no no no u guys. just add relevant content. step back and ask yourself, what if this site wasnt mine, how would i benefit from it? what value does it give? WRITE VALUABLE RELEVANT CONTENT.
I think the best thing is to get a link from a very reputable website...get listed in yahoo directory, or anything like that
and not a curse... Mind you, You can do all the things you want to grow your site up during the sandbox period. Get links and get them like mad, Add content and do everything legal under the google Rules and you can be that the site is going to come back 100 times more powerful that when it went back to the sand box. Trust me i have tried that with a site www.kendir.com and its like too good. I slowed down for 6 months due to the sand box. but this was the time i was desperately working on everything to get it back to google. Nothing i did got be back thoguh. Google took its own time of 6 months and when it got back, VOILA,... i got 26 links to my site instead of 2 and 144 pages listed insted of 33 and the best part was that all my pages including Sub pages were on the first page... and still is for my desired kewyords... So work hard during your sandbox time of course no returns for the 6 monts or whatever time it may be but after that is KUDOS..
If you create quality content then you may get natural links-in to your site. This will help you get out of the sandbox effect.
What about if you were a large corporation or something where you launched a product price comparison site. You are not going to launch with 7 products are you. You want a good launch and loads of media coverage and you will not get it if your site doesn't perform and it will not with building pages slowly. A successful product price comparison site would launch with over 1,000,000 products already in their database giving the site over 1,000,000 pages straight away. I wonder how sites like this deal with penalties and the sandbox.