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Nakul,

Thanks for the reply!   No errors, or major changes lately.  I wish that was the problem!

Many Thanks

William,

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah! I've lost ranking before that quickly bounced back in 3-4 weeks, but never something like this.

I had about 8 #1 rankings and they are all gone.

Marie,

Thanks you so much for your answer.  I had no idea those nasty links were there.  I took the SEO and SMM over on this site last November, and there were a lot of that stuff.  I thought I had gotten rid of it all.

Do you mind me asking what tool you used to find them?

Your explanation seems the plausible.  But I have never had a Google penalty, and unfortunately I have not used WMT.  So I did not receive any messages.  That mistake will be corrected immediately.

Any advise on how to handle the penalties?  Procedures? - Time-frames?

Thanks again,

JT

A site that I do SEO and SMM (www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com) had a PR 5 and now it shows "unranked".

I had the #1 position for many core keywords, and now they are all gone.

I don't do any black hat at all.  Mostly article distribution and onsite content growth.

The only logical thing that I can think of is, the server was going down several times a day, for about 3 days, a few weeks ago.  But I can imagine that would cause me to lose all my rankings, and a PR 5.  But then again, this has never happened to me before.

I am trying to find out what caused this, how to fix the problem, and how long it will take to recover.

Any suggestions or help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

I am willing to pay for good advice on this issue if need be.

JT