Today marks the day when all of our blogs officially got out of the Google sandbox.

We are waiting now to see what the effect will be on traffic. However, we’re glad to have this obstacle out of the way. It is a frustrating situation; it is completely not within the control of any well-planned SEO strategy to combat the sandbox. Unfortunately, the data on the sandbox phenomenon is not documented. It may not happen to everyone. And its length is really independent of the blog age, as we’ve found. All of our blogs, started at different times, came out with PageRank with the new index.

As noted on ProBlogger, there are a ton of others out there celebrating, or sometimes cursing, the new indexing and PageRank results. Questioning its relevance is a whole other area of controversy.