annej - 7:27 am on Mar 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

My question to all those affected, has anyone actually managed to escape this penalty? And by escape I mean at least 2 weeks with relatively stable results across all pages?

Yes, I have several pages back and they have stayed back.

I can't be certain of what brought them back. I know one contents page was brought back by a good inbound link. But the others I used kind of a scatter gun approach. I tried several things at once like decreasing word/phrase density, changing the page title, and changing or cutting back on links with the related anchor text.

Since then I've added some things back. I don't think it was the titles that were causing the problem. But it appears that cutting back on internal linking did help. So it's worth trying that.

I should say though, I think I'm one of those people who are kind of on the edge of the filter. I lost two directories and a few other scattered pages. I didn't lose most of all of my site like some people did.