What's the "I'm Sorry" URL?

[funtent]

My Mac forum site has been sandboxed, I believe.

It was coming up ~45th for quite some time for "Mac forum" but now it's not in the top 1000, since January or so.

I *think* it was because of links from my other sites (photography, Volvo forum, education). Those sites are obviously non-related to the Mac site. I wrote about that here some months ago.

I removed the links to my Mac site on the unrelated sites, and now I want to tell Google I'm sorry etc. Do you know the URL? Any further advice?

TIA
Funtent

[seobook]

if you are still in their index you probably just need to keep working on developing the site and linkage profile.

[David Wallace]

You can email them at help @ google.com but I doubt that your links have moved you out of 45th position. As SEOBook said, you probably need to work on optimizing your site better.

[funtent]

It was, and is, optimized. Well, maybe not not perfectly optimized, but a heck of a lot better than stock phpBB (forum software) builds.

I did things like change posts' title tags to <h1> from .maintitle.

The index page has a PR 4 and is in DMOZ. I guess I don't understand what happened.

[seobook]

stuff mixes around all the time

Originally Posted by funtent

I guess I don't understand what happened.

that is their goal

[funtent]

Could the sandboxing be due to frequent posts by one of my forum regulars of entire AP news stories? I realize it violates copyright.

Does Google look unkindly on that?

[funtent]

...and just like that it's back at #50.

If it wasn't a naturally occuring Google action of some sort, it was me removing the "mac forum" link from my signature in my Volvo forum posts, which numbered about 1000.

I did that about January-February in response to the sandboxing.

Moral: Don't x-link your sites, even if they are small-ish personal sites (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/...ead.php?t=3357).