Amarula - 12:10 pm on Oct 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Maria44

We had the same story - 2 of our sites dropped from first positions to page 3 on aug 17 and now are gradually recovering by itself. One site had only select quality outbound links, another had more links but did not clean up anything after the drop and still both sites are climbing up in the SERPS.
This situation has got NOTHING to do with your outbound links.