1script - 4:20 am on Oct 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

@ ken_b:

Anyone ever hear of a serp where two sites got nailed with this type of "penalty"? Do they end up at #31 and #32?

I would guess it rarely, if ever, happens to two separate sites at the same time. Well, unless of course, you were spammin' and jammin' your way to the top two positions and they nailed your entire network. I would not want to be in your shoes then. Loosing one site hurts enough as it is.

On a second thought: there should be categories that they are reviewing more often. In this case, if the "zitted intern" was on a mission to clean search results for an often searched keyword, they could have tagged two adjacent sites one right after another. But how do you know if the #32 was penalized unless you know the pre-penalty SERPs by heart and can see your former rival now racing you to the #31 spot?