Stefan - 5:17 am on Feb 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

We have come to the realisation that whilst at the time this gave us a great deal of success, we believe Google has dropped any sites on our server from the Google listings, genuine or otherwise.

It might not be the server itself, it could just be the domains and the linking method.

We have deactivated all of the sites with the spider pages from our server, but I wondered if this was enough to get back in the 'good books', or whether we simply had to wait a 'period of time'?

To be honest, the main sites that had all the spam sites pointing to them might be permanent casualities.

I am presuming that our server is on some sort of 'black list'?

The server might not be, but the domains are, as above.

All part of the learning process I guess - but any advice anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.

You might have to start over from scratch, using a different server to be on the safe side, but with the sandbox nonsense still in effect with G, it makes it more difficult. Perhaps don't totally abandon the original domains that were important, that everything was pointed at, but register another domain and start working at that, by adding lots of content, (different enough that there are no dupe content problems), and getting backlinks etc.

Good luck, man. Sorry that your effort to elicit help here ran into problems in this thread. Don't see it as totally indicative of what can be learned at WW. And welcome aboard.