followgreg - 12:07 pm on Sep 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

As of this morning the website I cherrish the most is dropping for the first time since its creation over 2 years ago. That's not good.

Provided that I spent the past few weeks making it look nicer, hired copywriters to make the content more appealing. Also removed some of what Google would eventually consider evidence of SEO...

Obviously Google is neither god nor even close to artificial intelligence because what's ranked instead now is either clearly manipulated or just would not be trusted by human beings.

Does Google have problems feeding trust or what?
Or does it have something to do with indexing problems?
Or do our competitors send 12's of baseless spam reports and it works based on whatever criteria?

On monday, I will ask for some black hat SEO budget, nothing to loose anyway and we don't rely so much on Google anyway for this site.
I am considering it seriously because everything seems to work except hard work and following the so called guidelines.