Originally Posted by
lots0
His traffic dropped, he is using a getseobot, a well known way to get your site banned... What more do you need to know?
At the very least submitting a review request to google will do no harm and may get his site reinstated to the SERP.
A few years back I had a similar experience with Mr. G.
I had used a bad linking method too. Traffic and rankings dropped, but no message in webmastertools though. As I suspected a ban, I requested a review and told them I was very, very sorry for this stupid mistake (they indeed love that part imho ) and soon after the review was done, I ranked well again.
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you like, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." R.E. Shay