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Hi everyone. A little background: I have a website that is 3 years old.  For a period of 8 months I was in the top 5 for my main targeted keyword.  I seemed to have survived the man eating panda but not so sure about the blood thirsty penguin. Anyway; my homepage, along with other important pages, have been wiped of the face of Google's planet.  First I got rid of some links that may not have been helping and disavowed them.  When this didn't work I decided to do a complete redesign of my site with better content, cleaner design, removed ads (only had 1) and incorporated social integration.  This has had no effect at all. I filed a reconsideration request and was told that I have NOT had any manual spam penalties made against me, by the way I never received any warning messages in WMT. SO, what could be the problem? Maybe it's duplicate content?  In WMT the Index Status indicates that there are 260 pages indexed.  However; I have only 47 pages in my sitemap and when I do a site: search on Google it only retrieves 44 pages.  So what are all these other pages? Before I uploaded the redesign I removed all the current pages from the index and cache using the remove URL tool in WMT. I should mention that I have a blog on Blogger that is linked to a subdomain on my hosting account  i.e. http://blog.mydomain.co.uk.  Are the blog posts counted as pages on my site or on Blogger's servers? Ahhhh this is too complicated lol Any help will be much appreciated! Many thanks, Mark.