bateman_ap - 12:25 pm on Sep 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

It's all a very misunderstood subject but there is a representative of google on the board and he has told us that sites are dropped from the index for various reasons, usually performed by dodgy SEO's to artificially inflate their rankings.

People here have been trying for 12 months or so to rid their domains of a penalty without much luck. The first thing I would do is unlink all your sites from one antother, get rid of the keywords and see if google takes pity with you and reenters you on the next index. Otherwise new domains is the way to go.

At the moment, while the google update is going on it is hard to see if your sites will be in the index once it has settled, give it a week and see if your sites are in then.