tomthumb2000 - 6:52 am on Dec 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

I run a very large content site in a very competitive field that is now one year old. Our content is unique and well written but most of our referrals still come from google image search.

The site receives only 150 visits a day on average and has shown no real growth for three months.

I solicit some links, use no black hat seo and whilst there is a little duplicate content on the site, it is vastly outweighted by the original writing.

I have a yahoo and a regional dmoz listing but still the search strings are very vague and obscure.

Is it still just a case of playing the waiting game some more or is there something else we need to do? When do i rule out any sandbox penalties and accept that we just don't have enough links?