BillyS - 5:23 pm on May 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've been in the sandbox for 12 months now, but do quite well in Yahoo. No sooner am I on the first page for a phrase then I start having all these sites link to me - mostly with PR 0 or worse.

I've got several thousand links now... how natural is that? Not sure.

Quite frankly, if this is keeping my site in the sandbox, then Google's got some pretty big problems - and not just with my site. Lately, I am seeing a real degradation in results from Google - and I actually like them. What I've noticed is that the top 2 or three spots are not targeted at all. Sometimes they've got very little to do with the search. I think Google should eliminate the "I Feel Lucky" button altogether - it's just not working anymore. They are self destructing trying to combat spam. How ironic is that?