Also installed the all-in-one-SEO-pack plugin. Apparently that ensures there’s no “duplication” (huh?…just going on advice!) that might have upset Google.

Have registered for Webmaster Protools and sent Google a “Reconsideration Request”.

Still no sign of the home page in the Google listings, but looking on anxiously and hopefully. Time will tell.

Thanks for your support. Glad things are resolved for you.

Cheers
Ross

Argh, I know how frustrated you must be feeling!
I’m on the Aussie bloggers forum, so I’ll comment over there. From what I can tell, you situation is different (and I still see you in google too). Anyway, I’ll comment over there (not that I can actually help!)

Saw you (but didn’t meet you) at the Perth Podcamp last year. Just so you have some idea how I got to your site.

My blog, The Boomtown Rap, has just disappeared from Google AND the other search engines, literally in a day. It happened yesterday. It was not monetised at all, so I don’t think there can be a penalty element to any decision by Google etc to cut me.

I have noticed a massive increase in SPAM in the last few weeks. I suspect this has something to do with the problem. Perhaps I’ve been hacked, as you were, but I don’t know how to tell.

Do you have any suggestions? This is really upsetting. I was building up a nice little readership, and my hits are down to virtually nothing overnight! I was planning my first podcast to be uploaded in the next few days, and now it seems no one is going to be able to find it - or anything else on the blog.

Sob, grrrrr!

thank god it got fixed in the end.

now.. on the topic of plugins…… wanna mobile-friendly the site? :P