kellyman - 3:24 pm on Apr 27, 2011 (gmt 0)

OK, so an over optimization filter was triggered by excessive use of keyword rich anchor text in our backlinks.

Out of curiosity how do you know for sure its an over optimization filter, was this confirmed in any way or have you just been told this,

As i suffered and still suffer slightly 6 months on to a very similar issue where just a few keywords do not rank well but mine was self inflicted with a coding error and i was told a number of reasons why including what your asking but after months of trying to fix something that was not there, i found the true issue