Regarding the Google Sandbox, I really have had no problems with Google and getting page rank as well as first page for some of my keywords. My website basically built in the month of May, submitted my sitemap to Google in June and page rank by the first week of July.
Though I have made no money yet from this website, I have had downloads with signups, no paying players yet though.
I would have to say that from my experience with building my own websites is that content is Number 1 and that it takes a lot of work to be successful.
The best part of building your own websites through the site builder that I have chosen is that 62% of the websites built through them are in the top 3% of websites on the internet.
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