Within less than a month ago I mentioned how a vendor site of mine was dropped because of a bad CB hoplink linking to my site. As a result google thought that an extension of the link was a page that does not exist on my vendor site, and upon finding no page - thought I was being reckless on my end and dropped my site. I still can't get it back to the top. That page never existed, and I did not create the hop link. Now, google says that if someone goofs when linking to your site -they will not hold you accountable. B.S. Just now, a well structured and optimized site that was ranking for a keyword that gets several hundred thousand searches a month globally, and has about 14,000,000 competing websites was dropped. When I checked crawl errors this is what I found. www.example.com/example.html rel='nofollow (VERBATIM) sites linking in 100 (100 LINKS ALL FROM THE SAME BLOG) Google seems to think that I once had a page on my site called www.example.com/example.html%rel='nofollow% Yes they are showing it in one example wtih the % in between to somehow connect. But if I link to www.example.com/example.html and there is no such page, does that hurt this site? One thing that I will never do again because it has hurt site after site that I've had, is comment on any blog that has recent comments enabled, because it links WAY too many pages at once from the same site. Google does NOT like this. In fact, once I put a homemade add on my own blog linking back to another site featuring a product of my own creation, and set it up so that it was in the source code and would appear on every page. BAM, google drops my site. Just over 100 pages from one blog linking to a page, apparently a huge no-no. But I'm convinced that when it comes to offsite goofs Google doesn't not know its A%$ from a hole in the ground. Any thoughts?