maximus12 - 3:02 pm on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Ted and Crob,

I am going on 5 weeks now and site is still the same. I do not think it is related with paid links because we have not bought many at all maybe 4 but very discreetly.

We did have an issue back in March where someone signed up for our forum and posted MP3 links all over the place redirecting to a MP3 site, when our webmaster caught this 14 hours later we deleted all the spammy links he added and blocked him, now we approve each new forum member manually and watch them carefully. We discovered that we were getting allot of errors in our Google Webmaster Central and when we checked them, this same guy who spammed our forum posted those links on over 30 other forums/blogs. We believe this could have been the cause of our penalty but are not 100% sure

I have been back-tracking and trying to find anything else bad that could have gone wrong, but still have found nothing. To us it happened April 30th 2009 and it still has not shown up. We are waiting another week and if nothing gives then we will file for reconsideration.