Ok, thinking back - this was just like Florida. Now there were tons of theories about Florida, and some were strongly in the "you over-optimized the site" camp, and I forget now what all else was theorized. Whatever the case was, the two sites that got smacked in Florida of mine - they regained their rankings a couple of months later without me doing much of anything. (On one site, I removed some keywords from some alt tags - the other site i did nothing to). In any case, anyone with a better memory than me, might want to remind us the possible Florida theories, and maybe some of those can be looked at the for the sandbox too. I'll do some searches and try to refresh my own memory as well.

Ok, the old memory is being refreshed. Hilltop, TSPR, authority links, blah blah blah.

Right, I remember it all so clearly now. Ok, I don't see any of this as being relevant to the sandbox, but because the -asdfsdff thing works for the sandbox just as it did for the Florida update, I thought I'd just remind everyone about it. But just in case people want to refresh their memories on Florida, here are some links...

http://news.stepforth.com/2004-news...-plus-one.shtml

http://www.linksecrets.com/pub/florida-report.html

http://www.webworkshop.net/florida-update.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/search...cle.php/3286101

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