Powerlinks.com

[Mac]

As some here may already know, the link exchange service offered by www.powerlinks.com pushed the limits of Google's rules and got the site banned. As a year long subscriber (now unsubscribed as of today) who has enjoyed good ranking (with exception regarding the last two months), what can I expect?

I've cut all my ties to powerlinks, but will this be enough?

I'm kind of kicking myself here as I became aware that I was doing a bad thing about 6 months. Unfortunely, it felt too good being at the top and I think my judgment became clouded.

Any thoughts? I can see my powerlink backlinks fading out, but my natural backlinks are still holding out and I've had no change in PageRank.

[sootledir]

If that was the problem, then you have fixed it. The trouble is, you can never be sure what caused the ban.

I wonder why the DP Coop and the Link Vault have been spared.

[seobook]

if it was algorithmic it may clear in time. if it was manual ban then you have to plead your case I think.

[Mac]

Of interest, guys, it has been 12 hours since I cut my ties with powerlinks and Yahoo has now begun to re-rank my site in the top results (after two months of poor ranking). I'm hoping Google extends me the same grace.

The only way that I can see me getting re-ranked so quickly over on Yahoo is that it was an automated penalization.