This happened to me just this past week, I was working on some link building for one of my newer sites, only about 6 weeks old which had been doing alright in the search engines. I was updating the blog twice a day with new content and haven’t stopped in the content adding, so 2 posts a day for the last 6 weeks. I seemed to have did a few too many links in the one night and the next day saw my traffic drop considerably. I checked the Google search results and noticed that i wasn’t even in the top 50 results, compared to the front page results i was achieving before.

So you are probably wondering, alright, your in the sandbox, how the hell did you get out, as thats all I’m interested in. Well what I found to have worked was to continue building links in the same fashion as the first time you were sandboxed. I built about 15 links on that first night, then was sandboxed, so a few days later i built another 10-15 links, still sandboxed the next day, so i tried again another few days later building about 10-15 links, and viola. The next day yielded not only the previous rankings for keywords i was trying to achieve, but the site was ranking higher. Now I had this problem with two sites, as I were building them at the same time, one was a more specialised niche than the other, but both the same general area.

So the thing that worked for me was to continue building links for the site, at the same rate you were BEFORE you got sandboxed. That is my trick, it has worked this time, but if im sandboxed in the future and it doesn’t work, ill let you all know.