So one of my sites that I've put hours upon hours into has been penalized from google for some reason. I tested some new backlinking methods that were "risky" and it didn't work out.

Lesson learned .

Anyhow, since I refuse to give up on this site and abandon it for months until it starts appearing in google (not on the 300th page!), I've decided to niche out.

I'm going to build a few other sites that are with keywords very related to my site, but more "nichifieD". The other site is more of a general weight loss site.

With these other sites, I'm going to optimize them as high content sites. The articles will recommend the other site that's sandboxed.

So, if you have a site thats been penalized by google, instead of throwing it away built other sites that link back to it and NOT just for "SEO purpopses". Make these sites themselves sources of lots of traffic, optimized for adsense or other affiliate offers, etc. And the visitors that click through to the other site will be taken to that site and may even become buyers of both sites! (maybe even nofollow the links if you're afraid that google hates that penalized site).