sji2671 - 1:40 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

Around the end of January 2004 my main site dropped like a stone for my keywords, however I took evasing action and now have advertising in place that means I generate the money I need from my site(s)

I have ignored google for the most part and carried on growing my site and it appears within the last 2 days I am getting the rankings that I had a year ago and google has more than doubled its traffic to me, with the extra from MSN and Yahoo I am suitably happy with twice the traffic I have been used to, however I know that if and when it changes I will not be reliant on google again so it's a lesson learned for me, and at this point a nice bonus to be getting much improved SERPS.