Glad to here your change has been positive Derrick Thanks for all of your input everyone. I'm not going make any drastic changes in my SEO yet just in case things smooth out over the coming days/weeks. I will definitely keep in mind not to have too many incoming links with the same text. Thanks everyone! Best of luck with all of your sites
There is a difference between a filter and penalty. You can recover from a filter quickly if you can figure out the problem. Matt Cutts mentions over-optimization as a reason for ranking problems in this video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4814548594071648913#1m42s
Its because google is changing around alot of crap with there SERP's , such as reciprocal link detection etc. So yea its probably temporary
Now I'm not even on page 40. I figured there was no point in looking beyond that.... I should have stop well before 40. Oh well, see what happens.
Yes I am one of those people that posted about this, my site jumped from page to to nowhere to be seen... Hope it gets better soon, that was like 5 days ago!