tigertom - 5:31 pm on Aug 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

My banned sites fit the Contractor's description. They also had a redirect script in the links. No ODP, text writen by me, but lots of outgoing links, and what I now realise was probably duplicate content. And they were doorway pages too, by Google's guidelines, which now have a horrid relevancy to me.

And: Now I think on it, the 100 grey HTML pages used on my main [banned] site would be a significant proportion of the HTML pages on that site (the rest would be Php bulletin boards and the like).

And: _the redirect script ran from the main site_. It was used on the main site, _and_ by the two other banned sites.

And: The redirect script forbids off-site usage. The GoogleBot would just get an error message when it tried to follow the link from their database.

[Laughs ruefully] Done down by my own mania!

Hope that helps someone.