Does a Manual Penalty Affect Other Sites in Same GA Account

[Marc-FIMA]

Hello Mozzers,

I was a bit foolish a couple of years back when first getting into the game, and employed a dodgy agency to do some SEO for me on some sites. Fast forward to this year, and the two sites in my Google Analytics account have been hit with a manual penalty.  I decided to ditch the websites and move on, so removed them from my GA account, webmaster tools etc and will simply let them die a death.

My question is, do you think this would affect how easy it would be to rank other websites within my GA account?  Does anybody have any views on this?

Thanks!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

As also stated by grasshopper Google Analytics and the Google Search team don't have any relation and the data over there is not shared between their products. So it can't be possible that your manual penalty on 1 site in your GA account influenced your other account.

[grasshopper]

Matt Cutts has stated that within Google, "Web Spam and Search Quality does not use Google Analytics in ranking.  It won't affect your ranking within Google search results".  You can watch the Google Webmaster Help video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLmO1GE4GvI

He made a point of qualifying his answer at the end by saying that his answer was accurate "as of today, May 17, 2010", so take that how you will