DeROK - 3:15 am on Aug 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hey everyone,

I've been reading through the June 27th/August 17th threads, and I was wondering if somebody could make it more clear as to what's actually going on?

Like many of you on the board, my site got trashed in the SERPs on June 27th only to recover a month later. At the time, I thought I had incurred a penalty and went through painstaking detail to remove even the most minute possible violations. I thought that correcting those problems was the reason that I recovered.

So needless to say, I was pretty upset when I got trashed again around the 17th when I knew my site was in total compliance with Google's guidelines. After visiting this forum, I now see that I was not the only one who has been experiencing this type of problem.

Here are my questions. If any of you can shed some light on these, I would really appreciate it.

1. Why is this happening? It seems like some kind of update, but why are certain sites getting trashed when others are standing firm?

2. Can I expect a recovery similar to the one I had in July?

3. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or am I completely at the mercy of Google on this one?

Thanks for you time!

[edited by: tedster at 6:25 am (utc) on Aug. 22, 2006]