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OK.  So you are saying my site will come back?  I have hesitated to spend any more time on it since it might be dead.

I have learned my lesson.  I think that a year ago, it would have been ok.

Do you recommend ezine articles?  I also plan to do a lot of guest blogging..  I'm so afraid to do any link building at all now.  I have sites on a variety of health issues and am afraid to build links now!

I have my blog guest and blogger link up as the main sites where you can submit your articles for links.  Do you recommend naked links like:

http://www.sitename.com?

I think that looks most natural, as that is how I link to other sites.

Thanks.

I have a site about back pain.  The name is lower back pain relief.  It has a lot of content on how to treat back pain with natural remedies.

I paid for botw.org and yahoo directories as well as submissions from submit edge.  My site was doing well within a few months.  I was floating around at the bottom of page two for "lower back pain relief" and lower back pain.

I found out about Unique article wizard.  I started using that to write and submit articles.  Now, my website is not ranking anywhere.

I submitted a request for reconsideration to Google.  They said no manual action had been taken.

The question:

How long does this penalty last?

Is that website toast now?

I think it was penalized for using the anchor text too much or adding too many links at once.  It has been penalized for about 6 weeks now.