AustrianOak - 5:27 pm on Dec 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

1script, yes thanks for starting this topic off.. even though we have not come up with any solid solutions it is nice to have support amongst fellow members..

avalanche101, best of luck! I applied a few days back and still nothing.. you can almost hear the crickets.

Question: How many of you people in the penalty are using GWT? How many have uploaded a sitemap? I am using both.. even though I left out the sitemaps for a few months since I wanted googel to do it's own searching - plus I just have a gut feeling that the whole thing has a "big-brotherish" feel about it. If you notice.. you will get different search results if you are logged into GWT in google as opposed to not being logged in.

Millions of sites are not using GWT and ranking amazingly! If Google doesn't wish to tell me why I have been penalized through that gateway.. it's not very valuable. Dunno.. GWT hasn't helped me yet..

[edited by: AustrianOak at 5:29 pm (utc) on Dec. 5, 2006]