nancyb - 2:00 am on Aug 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

Well, I will be out of business by the end of this month. I've emailed, begged and whined. Checked and checked my code, even redirected (301) another old personal site that had good ranks in google so that it would point to my domain. Removed any outbound link that might be suspicious even though there were all within my theme.

I'm one of the little guys that evidently made a mistake and used WPG last year and was in a link farm until Mar 2001. Almost all the sites I link to are PR4,5, or 6. Most of the sites that link back to me are PR4,5 6 - even their link pages.

After working since 1999 to create a decent site that my visitors/customers give me lots of compliments about (both product and ease of use) it is very disheartening to go out of business because I can't get back into google.

Last Fri night I thought perhaps my last email was looked at because I discovered my site in www in almost all the old positions (page 1) for most of my keywords. I was so surprised and shocked I double checked in www2 and www3 and they were there, too! Happy was I! But not for long. I don't know how long these positions had been there before I saw them, but they were all gone within about a half hour and have not returned. :( :(