jchance - 2:29 am on Mar 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

What I have found to see if you have a penalty is this.

Go to msn and type in the exact title of your website (if its a fairly long title) or some other long text from your website.

If you site appears at the bottom of the serps, then you are probably penalized.

Another thing to try if you have a bunch of backlinks to your website is to type in the domain name of your site. If other sites that just mention you appear before you, you might be penalized too.