crobb305 - 3:36 pm on Jun 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

Googleguy,

Could the fact that an established website (penalized for a year -- ranking >100 for it's unique name) suddenly moves to the number one spot for it's unique name, begins to rank highly on obscure phrases (e.g. rank #1 or #2 out of about 40,000 results), and ranks #1 for snippets of content from the page, be an indication that penalties have been lifted and that it will eventually rank for less obscure phrases or is all this coincident with canonical url improvements?

All of this began shortly after the reinclusion request that I submitted in early April (when you suggested that I send one in another thread). Unfortunately, the response I got from you guys was simply that the url was already indexed. So that's why I wonder if all of these happenings are merely because of canonicalization improvements.

[edited by: crobb305 at 3:53 pm (utc) on June 2, 2005]