I'm out of the sandboxed.
Before sandbox I was #14 for my money keyword, I'm out the box in around 2 months and I'm #10.
Truth is I lost hope and i didnt do as much linkbuilding as I should have, and I actually started another website in order to switch the good links over.
Well the morning after I created the new site to switch over to. I check market samurai and the sandboxed site is backed in the game.
This isn't a blip, this is the real shit, I checked the ranks on all of the 6 keywords, they've all moved up to page one. And I've been starting to get traffic from google all over again.
How did I fix this?
1. I acquired editorial links from high quality websites by guest posting. Basically PR6-PR4 websites, articles were often featured on the homepage.
2. Link diversity.
I had access to around 500 links from forum signature links. They were all posting to the same page [homepage], i spread these out and linked them to deeplinks
I also changed the web 2.0 properties I could get access to.
3. Understand google
I realised that my problem was down to algorithmic penalties rather than human moderated penalties, So there was something fucked up in my link profile. Sometimes you forget to do the boring seo like writing guest posts to high authority websites, and you rely on too much automation tools to weak sources. You get away with doing it so you end up doing more and more automation stuff, until eventually all you're doing is automation. And you forget the basics likes quality links and link diversity. So you need to step back and look at things objectively. If you were a seo consultant for someone else's website, what would you advise them? Then do it.