Sandboxed for 3 weeks, then back on pg 1 for a day?!

taktikz

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Oct 22, 2008
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My main site was recently sandboxed for about 3 weeks. Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I masked my aff links by 301 redirect, pinged the site and it was almost instantly back on pg 1. This only lasted a day though.
I'm back to being sandboxed.
What's going on?