Google penalty or sandbox?

[bodyboard662]

I run a 2 chat sites called usachatnow.com (usachatnow) and teenschatnow.com feb 24, 2009 my site went from first page to 5, 6th and 7th. The reason I say those 3 pages is because the keyword (doesn't matter which one) they simply move from page to page every hour of every day. I have been trying to figure out this penalty since this has happened. I have done alot of changes with my site. One being cleaning up all the errors from the validator, removing paid links, adding fresh content and etc. ALot of the changes I made happened last summer. I just recently cleaned up all the errors I had using the validator. I am also using nofollow tags on links and many other recommended google ideas. If i search on google for my trade mark of either usachatnow or teenschatnow they both will show on page 5 to 7. Can anyone tell what is going on here with google? I have tried so many things and nothing seems to have worked and at this point have no idea what to do. I am coming up on 1 year of being in this penalty or sandbox...the site is about 4 to 5 years old. Can anyone shed some light on what could possibly be going on?

 

[leonardwilliamson]

Yeah, it's kind of hard to escape from google sandbox. Try linking on authority sites (gov or edu), that will help to reestablish your sites' reputation on google.

 

[andr69]

Google sandbox is a place where Google bestows young websites which haven't proved their reliability yet. To my mind it is the obstacle which can't be overcome.

 

[Falian]

Google sandbox is a place where Google bestows young websites which haven't proved their reliability yet. To my mind it is the obstacle which can't be overcome.

SEOers have to deal with sandboxing all the time, it's a part of the industry. You eventually get out of it though. In the meantime you need to continue linkbuilding.