River_SEO - 6:54 am on Jan 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have a newly uploaded website that has a relatively old domain name as it was actually purchased from a “buy and sell” domain website. To give you more idea, the website is actually a two month old website, since I just uploaded the complete website November last year.

The *optimized* newly uploaded pages surprisingly got a Google Rank # 7 during its first few weeks online and surprisingly had been no where to be found at all already after a few more weeks up to now. My question is: Is my website Sandboxed? How can I get out if my website is actually sandboxed?

I understand that you will know if a website is banned from Google if it actually has a grey-barred status using the Google Tool Bar. Sad to say, the website actually has a grey-barred status even though I followed a Good SEO practice. Is it actually banned by Google? Again, how can I get out?

Thanks for your help and have wonderful New Year to all.