colin_h - 7:58 am on Oct 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

I think we are seeing a whiplash effect from inside Google rather than a spate of evil webmasters destroying sites.

My site got wiped off Google 3 months ago, totally gone without even registering its existence. It's been a PR5 for ages and is around 5 years old. About 2 weeks ago it returned to full power again and stayed untouched for about 12 days. The moment that my backlinks were being relisted Google trashed me again, back to PR0 and no listing.

I think that Google see the re-listing of my time served backlinks as new activity and is assuming that I am buying in links. Either there needs to be a few weeks amnesty for sites to get back established or the site listing should not be relisted until all backlink data is secure.

Speaking for myself, I have always seen other people's high listing as something to compete with and try to present better & more relevant content. I think that most webmasters act the same. I also think that we tend to blame our coding first and Google second. I think this time it's all Google and it is really destroying their credibility. I haven't seen such rubbish in the top ten since the days of the early porn wars.

Cheers All ...