Originally Posted by Doug E

Happens to most of my new sites when I finally post them with content. They sit in top 10 for a few days then drop out of top 100. They remain indexed but wont pop up in top 100 for the targeted keyword for a few weeks and when they do its often a lower rank than it originally was but they tend to climb back steadily to top 20 or 10 with no tinkering. The first time i did it i freaked out when it dropped out cuz i got used to the few days of sales from a lot of SE traffic on this site, i thought a competitor sabotaged it somehow.

That behavior could be just based on how my sites are and how I add in backlinks and how google finds them. no idea how it is for others. also i go for keywords that dont have a whole lot of competition if that makes things different, i dunno, im no expert.

Anyways, if thats what google sandbox is then I can say its real.