dial_d - 10:11 pm on Oct 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Well, certainly the last couple of posts don't sound very promising but I do appreciate you guys sharing your experiences.

I did think about making a reinclusion request. The site in question is available in the drop down box. (Does that mean the site has definately been banned?) But, I have to acknowledge, "I believe this site has violated Google's quality guidelines in the past." Which I do not believe to be true.

The only thing I can possibly think of that might be seen by Google as being "bad" is that I used WordTracker to get the ideas for most of the articles. I would use it dig up topics and then wrote articles about the topics I found. It wasn't for SEO purposes, it was just to find out what people wanted to know about the general subject. Could that be seen as wrong by Google on some level?

I am having a hard time accepting that this could be the problem though. I feel that the site would easily pass a manual review.

At this point, I'm wondering if I shouldn't just buy a new domain name, put the site on it and do a redirect from the old domain name. Maybe that wouldn't help much though. It would certainly be months before the site got anywhere near it's previous traffic levels, if I did.