leadegroot - 9:27 pm on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

I think you're approaching dealing with Google the wrong way (no offence)
We'd all like to be able to run off to Google whenever a site stops ranking and 'say "I know my lovely site is ok - please do some voodoo to make it rank properly", but there are so many of us that they don't have the resources to hold all our hands.

They have picked a particular exception to this: where a site has previously been in violation of their rules, you can do a check-a-box thing to get them to re-review it.
I suspect this is an automated method that looks at what they have recorded as problems for the site and sees if those items are still there.
I repeat - this process is specifically designed for when there have been problems on your site, and you have fixed them.
Your case? because you have not done anything that is against the rules, a re-inclusion request is not going to be useful to you - this, I think, is why they have that nasty statement in the reinclusion process, to tell people what it is there for.

What should you do?
Google groups, as mentioned above, would seem to be an obvious one.
I would also agree with someone else above and get someone independent to have a look through your sites - its possible that one of your team members is hiding nasty stuff on the company site - it does happen :(
If none of that helps, I'm thinking the 'subdomain spam' diagnosis sounds possible. You might want to review whether separate subdomains are really justified for these sites.

You could also ask the mods permission to put your domain names in this thread for members to have a peek at, but I don't think they normally allow that.

You know what would be nice for webmaster tools? A listing of the rules a site is in breach of. But I suppose the spammers would abuse that to run close to the wind :(