drall - 1:17 pm on Aug 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

We had a 10 year old website completely banned from the engine. After hundreds of hours of research we couldnt find anything wrong on our part.

I started researching every one of our 200k ibl's to the site. I found tens of thousands of spammy links we did not obtain as well as hundreds of custom made articles detailing certain keyword phrases and linking to our website with heavy anchor.

These articles made it look as if we were trying to increase our rankings for these keyword phrases. Shortly after the websites removal from google these articles vanished from the sites they were hosted on. I was only able to get copies of them through cache and the ia.

The picture I am painting is that somebody spent alot of time and money creating articles that looked like we created them on other websites with the express purpose of increasing rankings on our banned site.

They then probably filed spam reports on our site and the articles we didnt create and this possibly lead to us being banned. After the ban they removed the articles to cover there tracks.

I am submitting a detailed overview of this to google to request reinclusion into the index.