Thread: Looking for Help

I bought a site about 5 months ago. I was told it was black hat SEO but was ok in the google guidelines. Since I have gotten several incoming links, and wrote a few articles. There are some very short articles on the site that are really just not complete but I dont see that as the problem.
About 2 months ago google penalized it. Someone told me it was called a " 50 " penelty. Many terms at say 3-5 dropped instantly to about 45-60.... IT varies about 25 spots all day long now but never better than 40 for any terms.
I have no idea what is wrong or what to do. I would appreciate help on points that I should work on and how. I am pretty green at this so explain in simple terms please.
Also would not mind hiring help at all, with proof you know what you are doing. Had some bad luck online hiring help. From what I hear there is no real expert on this but hoping someone hear can shed light on this for me. Thanks

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