kellyman - 10:08 pm on Jun 13, 2012 (gmt 0)

I do now of a site that did recover after doing a 301, they recovered their original positions and it took the 3 days.

I have followed their methods and 3 weeks on i still have both sets of URL's in the index and lost traffic, i have confirmed the 301's are working but i suppose they were lucky and i was not, however 3 weeks may be not long enough.

Apart from the site above i have heard very good reports of 301's working but i cannot verify those, however you have to be 100% that as mentioned it was just not the devaluation of your incoming links that forced the drop in the first place otherwise the only thing that will bring you back is more quality links.