t2dman - 4:42 am on Mar 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

Great to have your input on this Marcia. It is interesting to hear that others have had the same problems.

We all sound like we have our heads screwed on - ie properly optimised pages, top ranked pages for high competition phrases that we have fought hard to get top for, constantly changing the content of our pages so we don't have dup content when our sites are scraped... and then finding that searches for unique text dont show our pages.

So who knows the answer? Does Google know? - I have posted several comments on Cutts blog, but had not specific reply :(

How long does it take for reinclusion requests to come through? Do reinclusion requests work for this? I am keen to hear if the 301 redirect to another page works. Not as easy for a home page - and not as keen to change the home page to another url until Google has had a chance to see via the reinclusion request.