I do hope StatCounter isn't the issue, but here's why I mentioned it, in more detail.
The following is from
Google Webmaster Guidelines
Quote:
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If your site is perceived to contain hidden text and links that are deceptive in intent, your site may be removed from the Google index, and will not appear in search results pages. When evaluating your site to see if it includes hidden text or links, look for anything that's not easily viewable by visitors of your site. Are any text or links there solely for search engines rather than visitors?
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Now, in the source code of Chris' WoW site, he has the following invisible link to StatCounter - which doesn't benefit his own site, just StatCounter's rank:
Code:
<a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c37.statcounter.com/3304285/0/e3bba782/1/" alt="web site analytic" ></a>
Now, that's what's supposed to show when Javascript is disabled in a browser, and that's how Google sees the site.
However, it seems to use an invisible image as the link to statcounter.com. When I turn off Javascript, I can't see a visible link to statcounter at all.
Now, I don't know if Google counts this as a hidden link or not. Personally, I'd err on the side of caution.
Here's a link to a discussion where someone think it does count as a hidden link:
Site not appearing in search results - Crawling, indexing, and ranking | Google Groups
Anyway, it's up to you. Maybe just waiting it out without changing anything will be all you need to do and your site will suddenly rise back up again. It's a gamble.
Maybe you can join some SEO forums and that Google group I linked to and ask around before you change it.
Has your site rank improved at all yet?