[MikeNY]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Quote of the year! Read it again... because it's the only post in this thread based on fact. Everything else here is guessing or misplaced anger.

I went through a big mess with AA a while back and now all five of my sites are on different platforms, IP numbers and hosts.

I remember your site at AA, when did you switch over?

[Phoenix]

I had 2 AA sites Phoenix (thought most would see my avatar ) which is now a Drupal fully custom site on my own server and Paradise Valley which is now with Point2 since I have fully upgraded hosting with them free for life.

PT promotion removed.

The other 2 sites are blogs of mine hosted at different private hosting companies.

How long were you with AA before "EVERYTHING went south" over there?

[Morristown]

I took a hit for some of the areas where I had mainly worked on though REW but even for those areas my site is continuing to rise. I noticed that for one town I have passed one of my competitors on the first page for that "city NJ real estate" search and am now ranking higher than I had before the REW ambush by GB and crew.

Thing that I am worried about is even though the rankings have come back the number of visits is still about half of what it was 3 weeks ago, though the number of leads coming though my site has remained consistent. On the other hand it may have been a bunch of local REALTORS visiting my site and now they have had their fill.

[MikeNY]

"real estate webmasters" on Google is still gone, wonder when it will come back.

[drewnick]

It's pretty amazing that this happened, I sure hope they come back soon.

[Morristown]

From reading what GB has to say now and in the past I think that it is likely that it was a orchestrated effort on his part and a few disgruntled former members. I could be wrong on that but it seemed like he was all over it way to fast. Of course my friend from San Diego will probably start harassing & threatening me again for even using the initials.

[MikeNY]

How would people have any sort of control that they can do something like this?

[Halfdeck]

From reading what GB has to say now and in the past I think that it is likely that it was a orchestrated effort on his part and a few disgruntled former members.

Let's not turn an SEO into a boogie-man. You're giving him too much credit.

[RyanRE]

"real estate webmasters" on Google is still gone, wonder when it will come back.

My best guess is somewhere between 21 to 51 days.

[webmaster]

Matt - I removed your reference to PT - Not cool at all. If you are going to be subtly dropping PT promotions here (A direct violation of our TOS) your account will be disabled. Promotion of any product or service is already a violation of our TOS, the fact that you are plugging PT makes it even worse.