Don’t Believe the SEO
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You should be careful what you believe when reading about search engines in seo forums, most of the time the stuff is posted by the type of people who think they’ve been placed in the “sandbox” if the affiliate site they made last week doesn’t rank #1 in Google yet for the keyword “business”. People have unreasonable expectations and when they don’t reach those unreasonable goals they make up theory after theory about how Google is punishing them.
Peter Davis is a web developer, investor, author, entrepreneur, and most importantly a father. 
very true
My favorite ones are still the comments where they assume they were penalized and tell everyone that they are. It drives newbies crazy. They are trying to figgure out what they are doing wrong when in reality it’s just not their time yet to get ranked.
Sandboxing was originally an observation that anchor text by volume was having a much more delayed impact than should normally have been expected. At first, the sandboxing period was around 3 months - now the period is uncertain.
However, you’re quite right that to many people now, “sandbox” is nothing more than a metaphor for “lack of rankings”, regardless of the presence or not of SEO techniques.
The sandbox excuse is just like the white hat excuse. Bying seos time. Truth is that the sandbox can be avoided. If a site has not been indexed and gets discovered thru a listing in DMOZ or some other good web site, chances are you will not be on the waiting list.