Napoleon - 12:10 pm on Aug 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

>> if this holds true than my just lifted +20 penalty has come back on me. Only now itīs a +50 penalty for the index page and a get-lost penalty for all other pages. <<

Yes... we are still seeing changes in this area.

By a "get-lost" penalty, I assume you mean that the 'offending' page(s) have been removed from the index entirely.

This is exactly what has happened to those of my pages that were still penalised with +20 with the current index.

In the last few weeks I have seen recovery for some of the sites originally hit on the 7th July and the total removal of others.

For some of the removed pages the high level url of the same name has been simultaneously recovered!

This indicates that the penalty (removal) is at least sub-directory by sub-directory rather than URL by URL.

I have yet to establish what exactly is different about the removed pages (and no, I have not employed any 'funny business' on them). This is the real mystery for me... the apparent inconsistency.