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I was wondering if spam penalties are imposed only to offending pages, instead of being applied to the whole domain.
This is the picture: Last month I've been searching for a certain keyphrase and found one of these pages within the first results (maybe it was picked up by the freshbot as it was not there at the end of the previous dance). I reported it and it was gone after about a week. That was fast, but I couldn't say for sure it was due to the spam report, maybe just the everflux effect.
During this (still current?) dance, a new page of this domain came up in the results. Basically, the same spamdexing stuff but with another html file name.
I saw GoogleGuy here encouraging members to report this kind of things, and I sent a new spam report for this other URL. Again, it disappeared after a couple of days.
I did a site search later and both pages were still in the index, they were just not appearing in SERPs for that "certain keyphrase". But this site has many more new pages indexed, and some of them containing the same "tricks" (I say "some of them" because I've not reviewed all the pages, but maybe all of them are done in the same way).
I checked the SERPs for another related keyphrases and saw other pages from this site appearing well positioned in some of them.
So I asked myself:
1- Did the spam report really was the cause for the first 2 pages to dissapear?
2- If yes, was it a "manual penalty" which hit only those 2 pages?
3- And/or, is the penalty only in relation with the associated keyphrase?
4- Having 2 pages reported (and maybe penalized), I think it's logical for Google to think the whole domain could be involved in spamdexing. Is it the case? Will G eventually penalize the domain or should you submit hundreds of spam reports (!), one for each page and related SERP?
I only can especulate on the subject. Anybody knows or had similar experiences?
Thanks
I think there is no clear answer to that.
Some of the effects you describe could be based on the Everflux effect.
There have been some members posting on having the internal pages of their site PR-zero'd whilst the index page stayed at PR3.
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