tigger - 6:59 am on Aug 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

>1. Are they affiliate sites with many links to the affiliate host.

yep thats 2 of my sites, I've lost about 80% of the traffic, the first hit was 25th then another site on the 26th both are primarily affiliate based sites, right now I'm trying to work out what best to do.

I don't know if it's a direct attack on affiliate sites as I have others that are still ranking well, but one thing I did notice is some of the doorways on site A that were pointing to site B (rather than the affiliate) have still held there positions where as other doorways on site A that were linking straight to the affiliate have lost top places - you figure it out