HuskyPup - 3:40 pm on Sep 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

Are you guys talking about the 950 here?

Me, no. I went through 950 last year with another site.

This site is very clean, no errors in WMT although 3 or 4 duplicate title tags and no duplicate pages.

Besides myself several other SEOers checked out the site completely and could find nothing wrong. The only bizarre thing was Google had put into the SERPs the 10 yr parked name exampleexample.com instead of the correct example-example.com.

I suspected that this may be causing the problem therefore removed the parked domain and URL forwarded it from my registrar. Whether this was the problem I have no idea.

The only other thing we could come up with that Google's .co.uk geo-targetting had gone completely haywire since we could could not even find the domain under a search using company name + region and when it's only one of half dozen busineses in that entire region and still cannot be found...well, what to do?

Strangely typing in the company name it came #1 and was shown with site links.

I have absolutely no idea as to why it was penalised and why it has suddenly returned and right at the top of the SERPs, not just re-included a few pages in.

It's been totally baffling from my point of view however if G were to admit they'd tweaked their algo one way or another then I may say...oh, really:-)