steveb - 12:46 am on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

"We’ve been talking about penalized pages but I think it’s more a matter of penalized phrases"

No, and again generalizing isn't helpful here. Some pages don't rank for anything. Some do rank for some terms but not others.

In all cases though a page is penalized. The way that page is penalized though can be varied (like either total death or only partial death).