His site webseos.com was in top 10 on many seo related Local kwds like SEO expert, SEO Kolkata, SEO expert Calcutta etc. But I saw that rank gone to 5-6th page in Google for last one year.

Even I saw for some large phrase which occurs in his web page once or so, when searched in Google, the site is not at all get ranks in 1st or 2nd page and getting ranks in 4-5th page. I think I am suffering by some kind of PENALTY. But no clue what happened.

I came across your blog, and found your problem is same. But he is quite astonished of the rankdrop.

Thanks again and welcome to my blog.

Thanks for the mention. For me, the most important thing is that I was able to help.

PS: Don’t forget to thank my loyal reader David Hopkins, he sent me an email asking me to help you. As you probably know, I am an extremely busy person, but like to please my readers whenever I can

I did a search for his name now and I see a page of his site coming up first. That was not the case before. Please follow the link to Matt’s comment to understand why his site is now getting back up in the results

I’ve checked that site and I can’t see that it is penalized.
Site ranks for various queries and it is very well indexed.

How did you it figure that the site is penalized?

For what it’s worth, you have one extra subscriber here.

Also interesting that MC specifically did mention those off topic links from your site to others. Although that could just be a tactic to create more confusion about why you were penalized to start with…. smart move either way to blur the reason!

Sam – Remember our rankings are on their hands. They decide if our sites live or die

I look forward to seeing your site reestablished.

As an aside, can I just say how refreshing it is to be able to get email updates of comments being posted? I rarely comment unless the topic really interests me, so when I do I want an easy way to keep up to date with the ensuing discussion. Too many blogs don’t offer this anymore and it’s impossible for me to understand why. Anyway, side issue… email to be sent now.

Hopefully the link removal will diffuse the situation.

That is a really nice website. I might be able to help you. Shoot me an email and will look deeper into it. I don’t charge my regular readers

Absolutely NOT! Link bombing is about asking people for links with specific anchor text.

If you can get Dugged/Reddited/Sphinned, etc. several times a day, everyday, GREAT FOR YOU. Tell me your trick!

That’s what I thought. Just trying to find a reason why we can’t seem to rank anymore for queries we’ve always dominated (and still do on all search engines but G). And we have happened to have some luck on the ol’ Digg/Reddit/Stumbleupon a few times (that’s fun stuff, especially Stumbleupon traffic) in that period, so now I’m getting paranoid that it could be things like that.

Argh, what does one have to do to get a site with 25000 natural backlinks listed normally these days?!?!?