sailorjwd - 1:55 pm on Oct 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

I was penalized 18 months ago for a dup content issue.

It took exactly 6 months for the penalty to be removed.

During that time an exact search for my unique company name listed my site way down (may have been 50+, I didn't count). Most-all sites that referred to my company appeared before mine.

Besides fixing the dup content issue i also greatly reduced my internal linking. Since then i've only brought the internal linking back by 50% of what it used to be... search results have never been better.