Is our site recovery on track?

Signs to assist recovery into the SERP's

[Whitey]

What are the signs that a damaged site is fully on the road to recovery?

We had a network of sites with basically 2 template designs repaired from duplicate content back in early September. One set is alive and kicking as from early/mid November. They just burst out of the blocks on different dates [ 14 days apart ] and returned results exactly as we intended. They were also in foreign languages.

The other sites, with better PR , IBL's , trust links [ .gov and .edu ], but with potential problems with too much on page functionality, stubbonly trickles the odd new obscure keyword here, and then another there. Nothing that we could call a full recovery, by any means.

Our dilema is whether we split these remaining sites up for testing the pages and risk damaging a normal recovery. So first, we have to establish, what is a normal recovery progress?

Any ideas?

How are we to read the signs