a_chameleon - 1:43 pm on May 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I'm mostly a "lurker", and this thread caught my eye. About a week ago, my site shot up everywhere, and then slipped, and then disappeared from several SERP completely.

I have a friend who does, in fact talk to people at Google, although he doesn't use the inside access often, not wanting to wear out his welcome, i'm sure.

His people in Google told him, he says, that they were having some issues with sites that had sitemaps in Google, that Gbot wasn't visiting new pages, and that once a sitemap had resided there for a while, Gbot really slowed down on re-crawls.

Is any of this valid? germane? All hogwash?