Rx_Recruiters - 7:48 pm on Aug 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

My biggest site was banned on July 28 - Dropped completely out of the index. I filled out the contact form several times, sent them several snail mail letters, and sent several e-mails to help @ google .

On August 2cd I recieved a personal reply saying they would forward my e-mail to the engineers for review. That reply had a number in it. I sent several more e-mails after nothing happend - all with the case # in the subject line. I got one personal e-mail back referring me to the webmaster guidelines, and I replyed again. I deleted about 30 pages from my site that were questionable to the guidelines, and noted that in the e-mail. 3 days ago, I recieved a personal e-mail from Google saying that I would be pleased to note that I was back in the index. Some very old pages are also showing up in the supplemental results - pages that haven't been on the site in a year.

I was ranking #1 for quite a few key words, and getting a ton of Google traffic, but now I'm far down the list, and getting very little traffic from Google to speak of. At least I'm back in, and hoping to make the trek back up the rankings. Another thing to note - When I was banned, my total pages indexed were over 500. Now, I'm only showing 135 pages in the index, and the google freshbot isn't visiting everyday like it was.

I did retain my PageRank however, which had went to 0 on July 28. It was back as soon as my site was back in the index.

I'm hoping that the next deep crawl will reindex my all pages and I will start getting traffic back! Has anyone else had any luck getting reincluded - and how long did it take to get their tarffic back (if at all)?