James45 - 12:37 pm on Dec 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

Here is another update,

I checked my site this morning for mydomain.com and it's still #1. I then checked for one keyword that is very competitve and relevant. I went from #55 yesterday to #12 this morning.

This particular site went through a realm of changes about 1 month ago (See part 1 of the thread for actual changes) and about 2 weeks ago I sent in a reinclusion request.

However if you have been following my posts you'll see that I also made these changes to another site and made a request 2 days ago. Within a day of that request, the site and the one described above returned to #1 for a search on their respective domain names. (Possibly the "doghouse" for websites is on autopilot with a que to set multiple sites free at once)

Other than that, I'm not sure what to conclude yet. Both of these sites had Alexa rankings in the 100k - 200k range (March 06) and are now 1.3- 1.5 million. This has been a rather painful year for these sites. They are incredibly useful and I get thank you emails and unsolicited links on the content frequently.

I'll keep everybody informed and my fingers crossed...