Pass_the_Dutchie - 9:11 am on Sep 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

Div01

Ditto that.

My high PR sites indexed back in Feb '04 with the 'old' ranking system should have out ranked the comp in the SERPS by now. However despite using a formula that currently works for all my sites pre '04 all new sites are currently underperforming.

I can only put this down to the 'crawling out of the sandbox effect' whereby new sites (not new pages on an existing site) are held back or filtered/dampened until a certain time has elapsed and/or a certain variety of both high and low PR inbound links are gathered.

Plus Google's IPO has put us all back a couple of months.