Got a warning from Google but rankings still ok.. what to expect?

[sbrault74]

Yesterday I got THE warning from Google:

"Dear site owner or webmaster of http://..., We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. "

It seems all my rankings are intact though. Some keywords got higher rankings, other dropped a little bit (-1, -2) but nothing unusual.

My question is, since I got this warning, should I expect some sort of penalty soon?

I see other webmasters who got their websites de-indexed after getting this warning so I'm quite concerned.

[JFritton]

I think you should probably figure out what's setting off the red flags and fix it.  They like to give warnings first if it's not a huge issues.. but they could drop the hammer on you at any time.

Best,

-Jason