Really glad I didnt panic here, as my site has slowly been creeping up every day. Again it went from #4 to page three, but has slowly climbed back to the middle of page two. Very glad to see that it didnt just bomb lol! =)

Thanks for all the input. I had one site move from #4 to page 3, but I'm going to wait it out a few weeks before I make changes. It's a quality site, so I anticipate if I have to make any changes at all, they will be small. It did use some spun content (via outsource) that may have indirectly hurt my site although it was ranking on page 1 long before I outsourced. All other sites after that one didnt use spun content, so I've gone completly away form that idea. However, one of my sites I built long ago that I havent really paid any attention too is now #1 after this change, which makes me happy. It's not built to make any money as it was a test site, but I can flip it around just a little bit and make a little coin now and again. The only backlinks to that site is are highly relevent forum signitures in my posts and highly relevent blog comments. There might be a total of 5 backlinks since it was created back in october.

Have you gotten anything that you can use yet?

Google is targeting anything that does not seem natural. The are funnelling gamers into a corner by giving "insight" into what their search algorithm is looking for. In reality, Google is looking for quality REAL content and they have a good grasp on languages and are only getting better. I can only imagine how many billions of words of text they have to analyze within Google Docs alone.

No one knows except Google. If you search around theres a lot of speculation. I wrote some of my thoughts on it in my blog but the one thing that Google confirmed is that it was targeting webspam, how we dont know for sure.