Thought I was banned...

And then they pulled me back in again....

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I've been searching Google for our pages since we were banned a few months ago. I've been searching for spesific text in quotes from high ranking pages, doing a link: www.mydomain.com and also just doing a search for www.mydomain.com.

Now it has all changed, well, some of it has. Our site is coming up 1 and 2 for lots of searches. We're really well placed on some really competetive searches. Our site is not ranked by Google, according to the toolbar. A search for www.mydomain.com and link:www.mydomain.com still turn up no results but I know that we have over 300 pages in there, because I've seen them turn up in search results.

Can anyone put me out of my misery and tell me what is going on?

[NeedScripts]

Is the PR for your less then 4. If yes, then I don't think it will give/show results for link:www.mydomain.com

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PR bar is greyed out...

But we have over 450 links many from 6's and 7's...

<edit>i.e. we've been banned- but then why are we turning up first in popular searches?</edit>

[julinho]

Maybe something to do with the fresh bot.
I have seen several pages of mine with gray bar showing up high in SERPs; the difference is that the gray bar is because the site is brand new.
Maybe the fresh bot crawled your page and Google decided to list it; it looks like this decision to list or not the page is completely independent of the status of the page in the regular database (even pages which still donīt exist or pages which were banned in the regular index may be listed after being visited by the fresh bot).
If what I said is correct, your pages should disappear soon; if they donīt, forget all the above (and let us know about it, if possible).