Site Dropped From Google - Due to "Spam site" link

[design@divergentweb.com]

Recently noted a Google PR0 on pambishop.com when doing some SEO. It used to be a PR1 or PR2 and was in Google, and has been online for about 1.5 years and recently just droppped off.

I looked around in Google and saw sites I never heard of, or wanted to link to our site like several here:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100....pambishop.com

The site is still in Yahoo, and I understand sites drop off of Google but is there anything amiss here any of you SEO/Google gurus can see?

[cbp]

Sites linking to you can't harm you.

You have used the wrong syntax for Googles link sample --- there should be no gap between link: and the url.

CBP

[wrmineo]

I don't know that this is the case here necessarily, but I have seen many realtor sites that are dupicated many times over - they have their personal one, they may have a agency one, and then they may have the same on a national one (century21, realtor.com, remax, etc).

Further, you code needs some attention in my opinion:

You have a CSS file listed:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles/pambishop.css" type="text/css">

but then you have a bunch of style defined in the body tag.

I would suggest checking the path to that css file too; I doubt it begins with a ".".

These are worthless IMO:
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="googlebot" content="index,follow">

This is concise, but not necessarily clear:
<meta name="description" content="Search the Charleston MLS for Mount Pleasant SC homes for sale.">

Google knows you're there:
http://64.233.161.104/search?hl=en&l....pambishop.com

I just don't think they're paying close attention to you - not in a positive light anyway.

[greeneagle]

You may also consider making the "Broker Reciprocity" statement on all your listings a graphic, instead of HTML. The long statement presents more material than the listing info on every individual listing page, which could be being viewed as duplicate content.

You definitely need to have your webmaster add a Document Type Declaration to each page.

I am also curious as to why the CSS is in document instead of a separate file where this can't be readily parsed:
style type="text/css">
<!--
div.descr {
margin: 0px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 10;
height: 125px;
width: 608px;
top: 620px;
left: 162px;
/* visibility: hidden; */
visibility: visible;
}
p.intro {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}

And I am also wondering why the "visibility hidden" is there and what you are doing with it?

Also, these are scarey looking links:
http://www.coastalcharlestonrealesta...ent_100552.php
http://www.coastalcharlestonrealesta...ent_100552.php
How many of those do you have? It looks like a doorway page. Have you participated with an agency that specializes in Site linking? It's an obvious redirect, whether it is or isn't a linking scheme, whether it is redirected using 301s or 302s etc... won't matter a whole lot if you immediately get rid of any outgoing links you have on your site to those "neighborhoods" - This is absolutely essential before reinclusion request is made. DO NOT LINK OUT TO THOSE KIND OF SITES!

If you are not doing anything "illegal", your site isn't a realestate template that many others are using...simply clean up these and the issues above before you ask for reinclusion. It would be a good idea to list the changes you made in the expalanation to GOOGLE.
Ken