blueskypartners - 2:03 pm on Mar 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi all,

I'm a novice at this... but, I noticed something strange with Google last week that may play into the idea that there is a bug in the system.

Our site, after being ranked in the top on many competitive keywords, took a sudden and drastic hit on March 7th (I personally didn't think this was possible, until I saw it with my own eyes).

At the same time, I noticed in Webmaster Tools - that in the external links there were hundreds of links from legitimate, off topic sites, that did NOT, in fact, link to us. I actually checked with one of the site owners, just to be on the safe side.

In a day or so, these links disappeared from Webmaster Tools, but our rankings have not returned yet.

I don't know if these things are related, but I thought I would share this with the hope that someone else can make some sense out of it.