AndyA - 1:07 pm on Jan 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

@ optimist:

I do have it set for Web Search, Google.com only. I've checked several of the queries listed, one at #4, one at #9, one at #12, and none of them are in those positions - they are all at the bottom of the results. And I know for a fact they've been there for the last 7 days, which is the period of time the results represent.

Google thinks my page for search term "blue widgets" is at #9, but it's hit by the 950 Penalty, buried at the bottom of the SERPs. Could this indicate the penalty is manual, overriding the algorhythm? Google's algorhythm has the page at #9, but it's been manually pushed to the bottom and the algo doesn't realize this?