Nice Answer. OP you need to wait. I will also suggest same only. Just make sure everything from your side is normal.I mean just forget this incidence. Site is facing a bombard of backlinks as soon as it stops and google is used to it. Site will rank again.
I think Google knows most of the tricks. As I said, it is not the external links hurting, as everyone and their uncle could go knock down the competition day after day using the same techniques, declaring inbound link wars. It must be something else.
It's simple if OBL is high on any page then you would find difficulty doing SEO! So consider this point! Anyway putting links of authority side would be good option!
Google is not ignorant of the fact that your competitors could bomb you and damage you with bad links ... if Google permitted inbound links that you cannot control to lower your rankings. It's a pretty safe bet, in my opinion, that Google's algorithm does not permit that to happen.
this could happen if you have not enough trust from google... try to get dmoz link, try to get a few strong links, but do nothing with a page, title and.. wait
Willing to give it a try? I have just been contacted by someone on this thread who has pointed me to a service that will do this. I am willing to fork out the cash to test this on your site, if you are confident that it is not possible? Please let me know lukaterra: most of my sites are dmoz listed.
This is the only useful answer I find. I have face similar situation and did the same and recover in 2 weeks.
Agreed, I am not and don't make changes related to our major key phrases on any of my sites, the internal pages change on a regular basis based on user content and have always done. The fact that you can drop out of the top serps results for such a long period of time (business time that is) is pretty damaging.
It is worrying that anyone can just ruin anybody's site with plastering their links on worthless sites, I am guessing a solution is Google could start demanding everyone uses WMT to prove they own the site, and which links they approve of their site being on, could
Not if your domain has 40k+ natural links. Who would ever have the time to do that! 1 a minute would still take 666 minutes (scary 666, lol) thats 27 days non stop or 81 eight hour days for one person not to mention the new links being aquired daily from news/press releases and other such links. Never going to happen.