martinibuster - 5:05 pm on Jul 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>>Could my site be confused as a scraper site?

Possible if some knucklehead reported it as such, and someone at Google gave it a cursory look and flipped the switch on it.

I have a hand edited business directory that takes free submissions, it charges no fees, that I filled up using my own knowledge of local businesses. Nothing black hat about it. It went gray bar in April.

My suspicion is that it's a hand ban. I can't know whether the root of it is a false spam report or a blacklisting from an eval.google knucklehead. I suspect it's an eval.google related action.

Not sure if it's related, but at the exact same time, the site in my profile (created for my profile, never promoted), also got a gray bar. Now, if a non-promoted website created just to stick in a WebmasterWorld profile gets graybarred, isn't that just a little weird? Was it an eval.google action gone bad?