Webnauts - 7:02 am on May 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

I was recently dealing with a customer's site that have been hit by the -950 penalty.

1. The site was not not showing up with its brand or URL.
2. The PR 2 in the toolbar was greyed out.

The penalty was due to growing spontaneously, without being planted or tended by human hand. It was a black hat SEO company who generated 1832 doorway pages, for the site which had all together only 11 pages!

I cleaned up the mess and requested a re-inclusion, and for our big luck, 21 hours later Google have removed the penalty.

The toolbar showed again PR 2 and the site was ranking at the top again, as it used to do before that disaster took place.

Since the recent PR update, the site has now PR 3.