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"Throughout my many years (makes me sound old) in the search industry, I have heard about many filters and penalties, including a filter or penalty to prevent a site from ranking well for a specific keyword phrase.  For example, if I want to rank well for big blue pineapple chair and I create a page about a big blue pineapple chair but Google never ranks me for that term, I may consider my site to be penalized from ranking well from that specific term.A HighRankings Forum thread has a couple webmasters asking about such a filter.  They say they rank well for everything they want, but not for a single keyword phrase that they once ranked well for.  The question they asked does a search engine, such as Google, penalize a site for a specific keyword phrase?Here is a poll, let me know what you think about this topic: Does Google Penalize For Specific Keyword Phrases?    (  surveys)As you can see from the poll, I have two Yes answers and one No.  You can select all or none.  Yes algorithmically means that Google has a filter that is automated.  Yes Manually means Google does filter for keyword phrases, but a human does it.  No, means, no, Google does not penalized in this way.I'll vote but I won't tell you what my thoughts are until after I post the results.Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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