stever - 11:14 am on Nov 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

Marcia, it's because people are referring to that "s" word...

The thinking goes: my site has been put in a "sandbox" therefore I must have committed an "infraction" because I have been given a "penalty" so therefore I must change whatever "wrong thing" I may have done. (e.g. "over-optimisation" discussions)

energylevel, words and the way that you use them are important. If you think of sandboxes and penalties you think in a certain way.

If you think in terms of algorithms, you think of your site not having enough of whatever may be attractive to a search engine at that time. Do you refer to your site being in the "linkbox" if you have no links to it or in the "titlebox" if you are using "Untitled Document"?