metablue - 1:58 pm on May 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Midhurst,
Kind of late, sorry. To answer your questions ...

The keywords for the site are very competitive, not niche. After reading a bit more I think the site came out of the sandbox (if it can be put into the sandbox after doing well for a few months).

The internal pages seem to rank a little better, but they were always coming up in searches, whereas the index page was almost impossible to find.

I don't see convergence between Yahoo and Google though. The site was getting traffic from Yahoo on the main keywords while being shunned by Google, but now that Google has let it out of the sandbox it's doing much better on Google. In my experience it's been easier to get a reasonable result (first or second page) on Yahoo, but when Google isn't sandboxing or filtering the site it's easier to get excellent results (top 5).