robotsdobetter - 6:42 am on May 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

Once you feel that your web site is not using any spam methods, you should contact Google by visiting [google.com...] I would tell them that you made a major mistake with your web site and will not allow this to happen again. Even if you do contact them, they likely won't lift the penalty off your web site.

There is a chance that Google is not penalizing your web site and for some reason you just dropped in the ranking, so you may want to wait this out and see how it plays out, after all you have nothing to lose with Google now. While your waiting just do what ever you were doing before with the web site and I am not talking about link development.

Just to be safe look at your web site and see if you are using anything that could cause Google to filter you out of the search results. I would also make sure no one is stealing your content and causing Google to see as duplicate content. You can do this by searching with a unique phrase on your Web page and see if any other site comes up with your content.