Last night, our ISP admin configured our site to ping pingomatic.com on every new post. pingomatic.com then pings weblogs.com, Technorati, and a few other services.

I read that Google Blog Search collects data from weblogs.com. We'll see if their ban on our site extends to the blog search.

i'd agree. the number of outbound links probably set off some filter. theoildrum.com might appear to be a link farm to the filter.

a manual review of the site should prove that the site is not a spamblog ... but a source of real content.

check this article out. it was written by matt cutts, google engineer. topic: file a reinclusion request

I did some quick analysis of your front page:


(x contains all urls):
->> internal = [u for u in x if not u.startswith('http')]
->> external  = [u for u in x if u.startswith('http')]
->> really_external  = [u for u in external if 'theoildrum' not in u]
->> len (internal)
83
->> len(external)
54
->> len(really_external)
35
->> len(x)
137


Total URLs on page: 137
Total URL's referencing your own site as http://www.theoildrum/: = 54-35 = 19
Total relative (on site / style urls):  83
Total external URLs: 35

Note this doesn't count the javascript-created links in ads, google may parse them out although I doubt it.