At least two of my sites are in the Google sandbox, how do I know this?, well because they are both carefully optimized and black hat free sites, and are not ranking in the top 10,000 results for their main keyword phrase!, and I also know because I passed a small child today who smacked me on the head with a shovel, then filled my mouth with sea water!.
After searching the web for ideas on why my sites are not listed at all for the main keyword, I kept coming across the term "the Google...