ryanep - 5:23 pm on Oct 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Geez, I only just found out that there are so many other people in the same boat as me. My site also took a severe dumping 5 months ago. My site was the No.2 site for most of the "bad credit loan" etc type keywords and was really making quite a killing, $$$ wise. All of the sudden my site got a -30 penalty which extended to a -950 penalty and has been there ever since.

I've done everything possible including a complete site revamp, de-SEOing the pages, removal of all outgoing links and even a few reinclusion requests. Nothing has worked. I suspect that my site has a penalty for dodgy link building which I can't do anything about.

To make matters worst, my site has always maintained itself at a level PR5 since the penalty but today I checked and it has a PR0 *cry. The strange thing is that all the backlinks still show up even in WMT.
My site shows up first for query http://www.example.com but is the last listing for "http://www.example.com".

Has anyone experienced a total PR drop too?