Another Google Penalty Question

I recently took over a Private Investigator website. The owner has several identical websites, same template, same text, same keyword stuffing, same white text on white background. The previous webmaster even went to a government page about Private Investigators, cut and pasted the entire page links and all, to the bottom of the home page in white. Private investigator – retired NYPD detectives New York NY NJ CT

I’ve completely rewritten the website, started a link exchange, submitted to directories and engines. It has only been one month but I haven’t cracked into Google’s top 60 for my keywords and I’m starting to get ranked in Yahoo. Still a little more tweeking going on

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