Google can be strange. Google penalised a site I guess because I once sponsored a theme and that theme suddenly got popular and I got a bunch of footer links pointing at my site. But the strange thing is, though the site moved far back in the SERP for all keywords, I still rank 1 for a particular keyword. Which is not and cosnidering it still brings be another 100 hundred odd visitors besided the MSN and Yahoo visitors. Yahoo rocks these days BTW My question was, what kind of a FREAK penalty was that? If i was totrally sandboxed or something I would have worked on it.. but I still rank for this keyword.. (Not the home page though) have you noticed similar things. How did u come out?