and now my site ranks back where it did months ago but here's the twist I emailed Google around 3-4 weeks ago about my domain index.html being penalized. A.html is not penalized so I redirected index.html to it and now today my site is coming back strong. What in the world could of happened? was it a Google engineer that lifted the penalty or was it me 301'ing the page?. Another thing Google shows a fresh date for index.html of november the 13th but a.html is not showing and a server header check has been showing that index.html has been 301'ed for almost a week now. Does Google think that a.html is the main page and counting the index.html as a duplicate?. I did not recieve a reply from Google about the penalty on my site.