Penalized Pages in Google

Will penalized pages ever be in the top 10 again

[samwise]

Hi,

I have a page that I think was penalized and it has dropped considerably in the pass weeks. If I re-do the page will it ever make it back into the 10 or so?

Sam

[cabbie]

I think it depends what the penalty was for.I have a site that was penalised a few months back because it was an expired domain.It no longer has any of the old links and has received a dmoz and google listing since the penalty but it will not show anywhere in the serps and has no pr.
The thing that sticks most in the throat though is that google have indexed my exclusive images and that the only traffic I get is people stealing my pics from searching Google Images.
ENOUGH ENOUGH GOOGLE I SAY!

[hutcheson]

You're asking completely the wrong question. Whether it makes it into the top ten depends altogether on the ten "most relevant" OTHER sites out there (and the zillion other sites that are madly tweaking THEIR pages to raise their relevance high enough to get into the "top ten".)

You have no direct control over search engine placement. You just control your own page's relevance.

"Relevance" is composed of two parts, page rank and keyword weighting. BOTH of them have many factors, some positive and some negative.

If your site was penalized, then someone at Google noticed that you had done something artificial to gain a high positive PR or KW. Now, to get un-penalized, you'll have to un-do that -- and your page will lose a lot of PR/KW.

In order to get back to where the page was before, you'll have to find somewhere else to get the equivalent boost -- and for most sites, there IS no legitimate way to do it.

Short answer: conceivably it is possible, practically speaking, it is very unlikely: and most people in your position looking for the quick buck will throw away the domain and start over on another domain, doing the same illegitimate things until Google notices that one ... then quick night flight to the next ISP and domain name.