Hi, want to share a small story that has some interesting and valuable info. In June 2005 I bought a site from another guy and during some weeks I worked on it and changed it totally. I put many links on it from my sites and many other places with many of them being PR 5 and 4. In total thousands of links with about 150 on unique IPs. The site refused to get indexed. Then I found out that the domain had been expired just a month or two before I bought it and obviously Google had it labeled as expired (or some other filter). About a week ago (4 months later and still not indexed) I read a bloggpost by Matt Cutts on how to get banned sites into Google. URL: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/ My site was not "banned" but decided to give it a try and filled out the form on the Google site with the data I had. Some hours later I got an automatic e-mail stating something like "see these pages for help but if none of them covers your issue you may answer this e-mail". I answered the e-mail. Less then a week later I got an automatic e-mail stating that my message was forward to a google engineer to take care of the matter. The next day 63 URLs indexed by Google, 1 is my startpage and the other 62 are supplemental results from 2004 of some expired blog. I was very surpriced and happy. Now people may find me with Google and on the PR update it will not show "N/A" but PR 3 or 4. Just felt like sharing the info.
Good to hear that even Google-people do not actually write back to you (all automated answers) but they DO look into you particular problem, and in your case even fix it! Congrats and good luck with your new site
Thanks. Yes, was actually surprised (8 billion web pages ...). This confirms that Google does have filters and those filters can be turned on and off of a site easily.