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In Matt Cutts (who works at Google)’s blog, I’ve just read an article: What’s an update? (saw it mentioned in ProBlogger) which leads me to think that the complete lack of backlinks to this very site in Google may not be related to the Sandbox at all (though, looking at the few search words that bring people here, I still think I’m in it).
Instead, apparently, Google only updates the backlinks it shows (not their database, but just what is visible to the public) every 3 months or so. This site isn’t 2 months old yet.
The likely result of this is that, in little more than one month from now, I will probably have backlinks from hundreds of places (I hope 
), but there won’t be a jump in how I actually rank in Google searches, because Google is already using that information, it just isn’t showing it.
What will affect those ranks is, probably:
- more and more people linking to this blog, or to particular articles in it;
- the site becoming “older” – apparently, it helps; and
- getting out of the Sandbox, assuming this site is in it.
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