In reply to Nate Wright.

Agreed, Nate. I would bet that many of the sites that were banned were churning out LOTS of sub-par content hoping to rank on the long-tail keywords. Especially considering AcademiaThemes is a very niche theme shop. If you create 100 Top 25 X WordPress themes (fill in X with every niche business/community you can think of: education, cooking, fitness, under-water basket weaving) some of them will rank. And the beauty of the internet is, no matter how niche of a subject matter, someone's out there searching for it. My dad always like to say, "There could be 2 people on the planet with a particular interest, but there's going to be 20 websites about it."