xDFuNK - 5:40 pm on Jul 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

i had a site i was working on recently which was an old huge trusted authority domain. a sub domain attached which run a completely different site based around the same industry happen to link to a whole slew of dynamic pages which weren't blocked off from the engines. after these got indexed over a few months time a hard penatly came which isolated the "actual pages" from ranking. everything stayed indexed, but just ceased to rank at all, these were pages based in 2 subdirectories on that particular subdomain.

Cleaned it up, blocked off the bad pages and believe it or not within a week everything reverted back. Definitely not a straight revert to an old index, cause everything was around the same ranking , but some things up or down here and there based upon some kws that were being tracked.

I had never seen a penalty applied in such a way, nor have I seen a site recover so quickly, so maybe it was a bit of an anomaly on both fronts.

If anyone has seen anything similar, please share.