A little over a week ago, Google God Matt Cutts posted something on his blog that definitely caught my eye. Embedded in a new Google Toolbar Pageranks post, he mentioned “I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.”

Those of you following my blog know that I was murdered by Google almost 9 months ago and suffered severe Google penalties on two of my best earning sites. It crushed my traffic and revenue. Now when I read Matt Cutt’s saying that some older penalties on websites are getting ready to expire I immediately thought of my two websites. I didn’t want to get my hopes up though, because still the odds of my rankings coming back are probably close to 0 at this point.

So it’s been over a week and I still haven’t seen any changes in my rankings or number of indexed pages. Maybe the penalties haven’t expired yet? Or maybe my two websites weren’t included in this batch? Who knows. I will be keeping my eye on this though. The reappearance of my two websites in Google would surge my earnings to new levels. I would be the happiest man on Earth.