centipede - 4:38 pm on May 23, 2011 (gmt 0)

@learnseo81 If you didn't want advice, don't ask for it. If you do want advice, hush and take the advice. It totally sounds like you are manipulating links to your site. Smart people are telling you that's probably the cause of your problems. Maybe you should listen to them.

I have 100ish web sites. Most do pretty great in the Google rankings. I don't build backlinks in any way. I might ask a few colleagues to link to my new sites, but really I consider a new link a day as plenty. For most sites, getting hundreds of links a week has got to look like manipulation to the Google. Because it is.