Is reciprocal linking dead?

[borisbaloney]

Are people mistaking a massive reduction in reciprocal link weight for this sandbox effect? Are sites leaving the "sandbox" when they start getting the amount of one-way links their content deserves naturally?

Just asking.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

No.

I have watched two new sites come out of the sandbox without changing the number of inbound links during the process.

[MHes]

How do you know when you are out of the samdbox?

We have some sites that are creeping up at 10% more traffic each week. This has been going on for 12 weeks. I estimate it will take at least another 12 months before it they reach the traffic levels one would expect after a few weeks in the index last year.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

OK! I don't really know if these sites are out of the sandbox. Actually we don't know for sure if the sandbox exists but I am assuming that it does. All I can say is that both sites had reasonably good content and were created within G's guidelines.

They were indexed in a couple of days but nowhere to be found for the first couple of months. They then started to get some traffic for a another three or four weeks before moving up to a respectable (fair) position.