No this is not a how-to, on beating the so-called "Google Sandbox". If that's what you are looking for there are plenty of forum discussions to help you out with that. What I have to offer to you is my recent and personal experience with getting a page to rank on Google.

There are professionals out there that spend every waking moment on making a page rank in the top 10 of Google (preferably #1) and for good reason. The top 3 ranking sites on Google tend to get 85% or more of the click through rates by regular web users. For terms that are searched 115,000 times a year, a site is almost guaranteed 90,000 hits per year or 2,500 hits per day. That's just for one page with one term. Just imagine what type of traffic you could get if you had 50 pages ranked in the top 3 for highly searched phrases. ALOT!