Growing Tired

It's officially been 6 months, give or take a few days, and we're still nowhere to be found in Google for "Boston Website Design." I recently read how some penalties are so severe that it's sometimes advantageous to abandon a domain name altogether and start anew. MSN and Yahoo obviously don't impose such penalties, as it's easy to interpret their algorithms and rank well for each. But Google is just a pain in the you know what! Why do we continue to linger in the sandbox? Why do we continue to rank low for the same keywords we dominate in other search engines? Your guess is as good as mine, but whatever the case, it's virtually impossible to figure out. I have heard stories of some site owners ranking well after a much longer time in "Time-Out," but is it worth the wait? Should a webmaster continue to build links for a site that will never rank well? SEO can be quite time consuming, and it's frustrating when your efforts are met with poor results. I'm thinking of just keeping the domain name, letting the back-links age, while starting a new domain with 110% White-Hat SEO optimization on the side. Who knows which one will finally rank, but it can't hurt to double your chances....