tigertom - 4:48 pm on Oct 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

Ditto. I'd been wondering why my traffic had gone down in the last few days :)

Tip-toeing 'round Google's algo wastes valuable development time; it's getting to be annoying.

Amusing: I read one chap on another forum saying "there's no such thing as a -950 penalty!". To which another poster replied: "That's true, until you get hit by it".

i.e. Your site is old and has so many great backlinks you can shrug any penalty off _or_ you're not targetting popular keywords with optimised sites.

[ Just an opinion -- no, I am not a spammer -- etc. etc. ]