Axacta - 11:22 am on Sep 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

Well I too am not an SEO, and my site is a content site, somewhat optimized, but with no tricks. I wouldn't know how to do most of them anyway, and even if I did I would be too scared to try. (But I am aware of them and know that I don't have anyhing worthy of a penalty.) For the past year I have been slowly adding inbound links and content, and slowly moving up the serps, so that last month for my most important keyword phrase I ranked #5. Now out of the blue I don't even show in the first 500 (I quit looking at 500). To top it off I dropped from #1 on MSN to #35 this month as well - that's another story.

Ever since I have been coming to WW I have read about sites being unfairly penalized by Google. I felt sorry for those guys and gals, but I thought at least it would not happen to me - I keep my nose squeaky clean. <snip>

[edited by: NFFC at 11:26 am (utc) on Sep. 28, 2002]
[edit reason] Rudeness is not welcome [/edit]