texasville - 1:18 am on Sep 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>>>When I contact Google I get the standard response that a site is listed even if it is in the Supplemental results. If I ask if my site has a penalty, I am told that certain actions such as buying or selling links to increase a site's Page Rank value or cloaking can result in penalization. But as I have said, this is not applicable to me. <<<<<

From your first post. I have a feeling you THINK it doesn't apply to you but imho- google gave you an answer. This is the penalty that you are under. You need to study your links both incoming and outgoing. Especially any reciprocal. 2000 links is a lotta links! I know there are others out there with more but let's face it. Either your site is very old or very authoritative or reaaaalllly commercial to have that many organic links.

This might not be your fault. You might have inadvertently linked into a farm. If so, you need to get out of it immediately. Repair the damage and write google with an apology and promise it won't happen again. You will be back in the serps within a reasonable time.

You need to analyze any correspondence from google carefully as they will tell you what is wrong, you just need to believe it when they tell you.

THEY may have it wrong. If after VERY careful evaluation of your links you find NO problems-write google with the original #number from their reply and ask them politely to review your case and refer it to their engineers as you cannot find the problem in your site so perhaps their filters are misreading your site.

Good luck!