My website ( www.manhattanservice.com ) stucked in sandbox from april. It has PR4 but only homepage were indexed. More than 150 internal pages were de-indexed in couple days.
I was trying hard to comeback. I build more unique content pages, I found good link trusted partners, i build more backlinks for internal pages but it did not work. My website was still in the sandbox and i was afraided that Google will ban my website.

In SeoChat forum i posted a lot about my problem before and you can check them
1) http://forums.seochat.com/google-opt...-it-85694.html
2) http://forums.seochat.com/google-opt...ite-84408.html


Several weeks ago i got really angry and i wrote Google letter to forgive me. I explained my mistakes, gave them example of bad websites and directories who linked me. I wrote explanation that my website contain unique content and i am really trying hard to inprove it. Moreover, i wrote a little bit about myself.
Guess what? Next day i got letter from Google. They wrote that they never discriminate any websites and sandbox never exist. They blamed technical difficulties and promised me to fix it. HOUR later 96 pages were indexed back. Week later Google indexed 250 pages and this week it is already 1760 pages indexed. Incredible. I got nice traffic right away and my website on Top 10 with 4 - 6 words search.
I can share. To write them a letter use this URL:

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py

And remember!
1. Be polite
2. Don't lie
3. Short letter! Don't write 5 pages essay.
4. Don't spam if they never responded. Try 2-3 monthes later.
5. Don't tell them that you remove AdSence from your website if they ignore you.
6. Be nice!

If you do something like this, they will be mad and forget about your domain forever.

! Anyway. I started to build my website again like i just opened it yesterday !

I don't buy this.

You were allegedly stuck in the sandbox. You email Google. And now your site which contains no original content, a bunch of random BS links to "partners" that are probably other crappy sites, and affiliate products out the wazoo somehow managed to gain rank in one or more phrases overnight just because of "technical difficulties" on Google's end?

Uh huh. Shahhhhh. Riiiiiiiiiight. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

Doesn't google limit their adsence accounts to using just their advertising? You appear to be using at least 3 different companies.

Sort of. They limit contextual advertising per page to Google only.

You can use other advertisers as long as either a) they're not other contextual ad networks or b) they're not on the same page as Google ads.

First off, it seems pretty strange that google wrote you back as they usually don't, but the strangest thing for me was google acknowledging that there was an error on their side!

Originally Posted by snipergrunge

My website was still in the sandbox and i was afraided that Google will ban my website.

sandbox is not a penalty, so one cannot get banned. Its thought to be more of an aging filter for backlinks.

and YES.. it does exist!

Does Google acknowledge their error ? It seems quiet interesting. So according to your post there's no "sandbox" at all. But all the SEO gurus speak a lot about it. I'm very much confused.

Hey, guys, i am not selling anything. I just giving you good advice, if something happen to you. My friend told me after that i have to work for Goverment and talk with IRAK, IRAN and Nothern Korea, if i can talk to Google....

Its ok everyone just chill out.

Akash