alphacooler - 6:21 am on Jun 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

Many people around these boards have come to the conclusion that gaining links at an 'unnatural' rate will put you in the box. I launched 2 sites a few months ago, and did an incredibly stupid thing. I linked to them from one of the columns on my pr5 site, forgetting that the column was an include file that is called on 100+ pages. So instantly my sites started off with 100 backlinks.

My question: Is there any evidence that sitewide links lead to being sandboxed? After going nowhere on G, I am contemplating starting over. I know 2 months is not long to wait, but the keywords I am targeting are very non-competitive. Any help is greatly appreciated.