I've Pulled Hardlink Trades - You May Want To Read This

[plateman]

Originally Posted by CaptainJSparrow

No prob plateman. I truly hope your site loses it's penalty and that you end up doing well.

its not a penalty read what matt cutts says about

As a reminder, supplemental results aren’t something to be afraid of; I’ve got pages from my site in the supplemental results, for example. A complete software rewrite of the infrastructure for supplemental results launched in Summer o’ 2005, and the supplemental results continue to get fresher. Having urls in the supplemental results doesn’t mean that you have some sort of penalty at all; the main determinant of whether a url is in our main web index or in the supplemental index is PageRank. If you used to have pages in our main web index and now they’re in the supplemental results, a good hypothesis is that we might not be counting links to your pages with the same weight as we have in the past. The approach I’d recommend in that case is to use solid white-hat SEO to get high-quality links (e.g. editorially given by other sites on the basis of merit).

[Useless]

Honesty, from the bottom of my heart, with every bit of sincerity that I can conjure forth, I truly hope that you all continue to ignore Bill's advice and allow your little lists to crumble. I could really use that very minor boost in traffic.

My new slogan: Live by Google. Die by Google.

[jennym]

Originally Posted by plateman

its not a penalty read what matt cutts says about

Having urls in the supplemental results doesn’t mean that you have some sort of penalty at all; the main determinant of whether a url is in our main web index or in the supplemental index is PageRank. If you used to have pages in our main web index and now they’re in the supplemental results, a good hypothesis is that we might not be counting links to your pages with the same weight as we have in the past. The approach I’d recommend in that case is to use solid white-hat SEO to get high-quality links (e.g. editorially given by other sites on the basis of merit).

I am sorry, but that sounds EXACTLY like a penalty to me.
Not necessarily a "you are doing something bad" penalty, but a "we are doing something different, and don't like this" penalty from Google.
You seem to think for some reason this is personal, and that couldn't be further from the truth. I am truly sorry you felt personally attacked. I simply wanted to have a nice business discussion, and find out what others were thinking. Unfortunately, very few people participated in the discussion, and it turned into an emotional debate instead of a business one.