Hi, I manage a website (adult industry) which use to have very good performance in the popular search engines, particularly google.de (my targeted niche) however all traffic went to toilet after an occurred incident. An authority forced google.de to delist all website contents (as well for Yahoo Germany) however the site was listed with the same good rankings in other national versions of Google. I quickly learned what the reason was, I censored all my content and petitioned Google, which in 2-3 weeks released the pages back into SERPs for google.de. However in 3-4 days the website was nowhere to be found in other google national engines, and for google.de it started to loose positions on a daily basis. Now the website is to be found only in google.de on poor positions, from other google.* the traffic is nearly zero. Nothing special had been done at that time so I can associate the drop with. Any tips for me? Thanks!
Are you using geo-targeting in your Webmasters Central account, did they change this for you with your request? Be honest, did you ever use any grey or black hat methods to rank well?
No, I know the feature you are mentioning however I'm not sure this is the best thing, I also target nearby countries too so I wouldn't go for it. If it would provide broader settings, such as Western and Central Europe would be awesome. As about the methods employed for optimization, the link building and content optimization had been done following Google's guide lines, never bought 3rd party grey traffic etc. I forgot to mention that in Yahoo! it's doing just fine, but it's market share on my target is very low. Thanks