Pretty impressive detective work Marc. I have never denied the fact that during my time as a consultant for AA that I gave both Yahoo and Google examples of other companies engaging in the same kind of behavior that got AA penalized. It's part of the job when you are doing reinclusion work. You clean up your mess, say your sorry, and promise not to do it again. You also respectfully ask them to apply the same standards to everyone in the space. That doesn't always happen, but you always ask. Doing anything less than that would be the equivalent of SEO malpractice.

To take that and say I'm somehow responsible for you getting banned I think is making some attempt to imply that I have some type of ability to convince Google to take action against sites that aren't actually violating their guidelines. And that's about the most rediculous thing I've ever heard.

There have been people on this and other forums trying to explain to those who would listen that no search engine feels that all reciprocal linking in the real estate space was acceptable long before I ever posted here. That being the case, the only one you have to blame is yourself.