Google Penalty Poll

[whiteycg]

I just got my google penalty lifted today and it feels great. I have been trying to get the thing lifted for a couple weeks and I didn&#39;t really know why I got one in the first place.<br /><br />Let me explain - I built a normal forum and I hosted it on a local server. My ISP had a port 25 block so I used NOIP.com... Now this is why I got the penalty, I could not get my domain name to cover up my IP address so I used the NOIP.com mask... Which google thinks is cloaking. So... I eventually moved the site to a new server and now my penalty has been lifted. I was starting to get really frustrated.. But now, I&#39;m enjoying a cold drink and tipping up to good times <br /><br />Share your frustrations CHEERS!

[whiteycg]

still nobody has ever suffered a penalty?

[brorawe]

Nope no penlatyes from google yet

[kikolani]

I&#39;m not sure if I received a Google penalty or not.&nbsp; The PR for one of the sites I work on dropped to 0, but at the same time, SERP&#39;s went up for most of the keywords.&nbsp; <br /><br />The only thing I can think of that caused it was some kind of hosting setup glitch.&nbsp; Basically, they owned the .com and .net of their company name.&nbsp; The .net is the one ranked in the search engines, but instead of the .com forwarding to the .net, the same content would come up under either domain.&nbsp; <br /><br />I recently fixed the issues with a 301 redirect, so I&#39;m hoping that will bring their PR up again.&nbsp; But so long as the SERP&#39;s stay good, I doubt anyone will care.