Using auto site checkers hammered by Google?

Problems associated with using auto checkers

[ingenius]

We had a so-called marketing expert working for us for a few weeks and he used "Web-Garage" to check our sites for bad html / links etc. Within a week, our sites were dropped like a hot potato by Google (from page one listings on popular keywords).

Anyone know whether this is definitely the problem? Anyone having the same problem?

[Brett_Tabke]

Why would the two be related? I don't see a connection between the two at all.

Google updates approximatly once a month from a spidering done the previous month.

[Lisa]

Only a website can harm its self. No outside force can harm your website. If an outside force could harm your listing competitors would be doing this like war.

A week would not be enough time for that SEO to screw you up. He would have had to made bad changes to your site back in March.

[ingenius]

The relationship could be a coincidence but the spiders were as it happens round the day after the software was used.

The pages we ranked on had only had one or two links added in the previous weeks (a continuous process we'd been following successfully) and no other changes made which could explain a sudden drop (we were totally removed from google for previously successful listings).

We still have no answers or even suggestions that could go part way to identifying a reason. And, we haven't reappeared in a subsequent crawl.

[Lisa]

ingenius,
Place your website your profile or sticky me. I am curious.