I don't know that Linda's expierence is luck. Avoiding the Google "sandbox" isn't that hard. It is simply a matter of not doing spammy things. I've always found that I could get a site indexed by Google pretty quickly without even having to submit the site to Google. In one of my latest cases, I started a blog on Feb 28, 2006 and it already has a PR5. I haven't even linked to the blog from my main site.
Google isn't hard to get into; however, it is easy to offend Google's spam filters by doing sneaky SEO or link popularity tricks.
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