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No worries at all--glad it turned out to be easily fixable.

And now I know what "nerfed" means. :)

This is why I love HackerNews. Guy asks for SEO help, frigg'n Matt Cutts answers!

FYI - Another fairly common usage of "nerfed" these days (especially in the gaming community) refers to something being toned-down. E.g. if many players are complaining about a character ability being too powerful, the developers may consider "nerfing" that character.

In Internet Marketing, we refer to being delisted as getting "sandboxed"

As you're replying to Google's Web Spam lead, I'm sure he's familiar with the terms for obliterating your splog farms. :)

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