austtr - 11:01 pm on May 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

There is a considerable number of members reporting what seems to be a quarantine period being applied to new sites.... that is NEW SITES, not new pages added to an existing site.

There is a post somewhere about the "sandbox effect" - about 300 posts from memory.

The usual pattern seems to be normal spidering of pages, pages appear in the index, PR follows... and then nothing. No rankings, almost zero traffic ....zip.

It would seem there are 2 possibilites:

1) there is a quarantine/intentional delay on new sites....OR
2) some very experienced webmasters have become incompetent overnight.