BigDave - 11:43 pm on Dec 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Optirex, this is the only line in the entire thread that you should pay any attention to.

If your site historically sits at the top of the serps then if one were to judge by past experience, it's very likely to come back within weeks or even a month or two.

I'll admit that I didn't read the latest doom and gloom thread. I stopped reading them about 4 years ago. They rarely provide any helpful long-term information.

You've been dinged for 6 days? So what? Even my largest, most stable site has taken occasional month long hits. I don't even bother trying to figure out what's up till it's been down a month.

If it's an income earning site, you just have to dip into your 6 months of backup cash that any sensible person would keep if they were depending on internet revenue.

Back to what Martinibuster said, those long-term sites that sit on the top of the SERPs are what I call robust sites. They do well on most of the factors in the various search engines. They will occasionally fall away if one of their weak spots is important in any particular algo, but the next time they turn a dial at the plex, the site pops right back up to the top.

If you are in it for the long term, don't sweat the short term.

[edited by: BigDave at 11:46 pm (utc) on Dec. 26, 2006]