catchingsmoke

So, I've been running a few tests on some penalised sites and to be honest I thought I was in some deep **** when my primary terms took massive penalties...... you know the sort that you pick up from over use of tools like SEnuke.

But it seems that you can rectify these anchor text based penalties pretty quickly if you change your permalink structure. I changed mine on the relevent deep pages. (these were the pages that were ranking) and made sure the old pages displayed 404's. Pretty soon Google reindexed the old pages in their new places and they came back in a lot better off. Whilst they are not as high as they were at least they're back within site of the 1st page as opposed to out of the top 50.