Ok first let me say its rare that I ask for help, but this problem has been plaguing me for many months (probably almost a year!) and I have no idea how to resolve it. I run the website X4B.org, from an SEO standpoint I would say we have no more or less links than any other medium sized webhost out there. However we don't rank, even for a direct domain match. We havent done alot in the way of SEO (our focus is on avoiding bad things, rather than doing good things) I contacted Google regarding a reconsideration, turns out its not a manual penalty (since when do they even reply... oh well its good I suppose). The site isn't hard to crawl (in my opinion) but neither has it been designed for search engines to crawl. Where should I go from here? All I really want to rank for is my own name "X4B" which should be easy given a domain or title direct match. Hopefully I can get some useful advice. Thanks in advance.
When you log into your Google webmaster panel, do you see anything unusual? If their crawler keeps indexing your pages and if there's no infraction with their search engine, there's little you can do to increase your site's ranking except advertising it like mad through various means (free or paid). Joining G+ may help in building a solid reputation for your service. I hear Google counts on G+ to boost the relevance of their search results.
Thank you for your input, yes we do do a bit of advertising (free and paid). This week was interesting, we can now be found via "x4b.org" so thats a start, still no luck under our direct name. Webmaster Tools doesnt reveal much of interest. Crawl errors is a measly 12 all 404s, just a few pages that are incorrectly linked externally (or to old pages). Perhaps its related to the old owner of the domian having thousands of links that took until the end of last year to be de-indexed: http://puu.sh/2KEcF.png Thanks for your help, Ill be sure to follow up on your suggestions.