Hi Antoine—>
You and I used to email back in the late 90’s when I got into casino aff marketing for the first time, but I doubt you would remember 
. It was right around the time you had that issue with your partner–ugh! But it seems like you have bounced back excellently!
I kind of wish I didn’t sell out and take the hiatus because things are so much tougher now. I am trying to put a positive spin on the whole sandbox issue, like it will make the sites in the index much better because only those of us who are serious will continue working on these sites for years without the Google rewards–thank God for MSN and Yahoo–AND I believe that this Sandbox effect is making the sites that we have that are now OUT of the sandbox much, much more valuable to those of us who may decide to sell in the future.
People who want to break into this industry nowadays can either 1) Develop, develop and wait wait wait or 2) Pay one of us a LOT for a non-sandboxed site.
Also, I am experimenting with a new technique where I am am creating a new site using ONLY javascript re-directs for all casino links. Its based on a theory I have that Google Sandboxes sites based on the nature of outbound links it follows from our sites and NOT on the content. Googlebot does not follow javascript re-directs. I will let you all know in about 6 months the results of this little experiment. Has anyone else tried this?
Anyway–3 years is a long time to wait–I was kind of hoping 18 months would be the max for my latest site. I have also heard that it is pretty obvious when a site is released from the Sandbox as there is a VERY NOTICEABLE spike in traffic from G and its affiliates like AOL.
Any more comments?