This is a serious, legitimate offer for a serious website. The site represents years of work, and has many, many pages, many incoming links, and no obvious SEO faults. About 18 months ago it had a quite respectable page rank and was getting 20,000 - 40,000 visitors per day, and earning many thousands of dollars in advertising revenue.
All of a sudden the page rank dropped to zero and traffic (and earnings) fell off 90%.
I have tried everything -- I hired consultants, re-wrote the site, got rid of duplicate content, removed other sites accessing the same database, eliminated 302 redirects, eliminated javascript redirects, wrote articles, submitted links, made re-inclusion requests. The site never had any paid links. Today it shows 62,000 site listings. This varies, some days it is over 200,000. It is included in the main index.
But the problem is, the PR remains at zero, and with PR0 the site now is non-competitive in search results. If it is number 60 or 70 in search results, nobody finds it. I believe the site is still suffering some penalty, and I do not know why.
I am willing to pay a reward of USD $100,000 dollars to anybody who can get me my page rank and search results positioning back. I will respond to all inquiries that seem honest and reasonable. No black-hat or sneaky methods will be considered.
For obvious reasons this current site is anonymous, but after an initial email exchange I will send real contact info.