These are some basic tips to help you avoid the Google Sandbox. Remember if for some reason you do end up in the sandbox, have some patience. Also look through the above tips and see if you have to many links, to much of the same anchor text, etc

Today Aaron has a post about meta description tags. He mentions an article by Dan Thies about Google dropping site snippets. It is a very good article going over what Google picks up and questioning what might happen if there is no meta description tag on your website.

Well the time has come. Google is updating backlinks again. You can check how your doing by using several SEO Tools. McDar has some free ones available, like the Datacenter Quick Check tool.