Comments on: How to File a Google Reconsideration Request

By: SEOMoves

SEOMoves — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:44:40 +0000

It is very difficult to apologize to Google when you look around at all the other websites out ranking you in natural search and you know it is all the links they have bought.

If Google every really took a stand against paid links the internet would be a completely different place. I am willing to be that 6 out of every top 10 results would be gone, including the vast majority of number 1 ranked websites.

OK this is very strange, I tried to submit this post, and your website keeps telling me my comment seems spammy? Not sure what I did wrong but I am adding this text to make my comment longer….hope it works this time.

By: Lito | TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.Com

Lito | TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.Com — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:53:40 +0000

Good post but sometimes I was just wondering how Google’s staffs can accommodate millions of problematic webmasters at once. I have an experience when I submitted my reconsideration request and only took one day for my site to rank again (My keyword ranking dropped after someone hacked my blog. You can read my full story on my post). Yet some webmasters take weeks or months before they see results. I think there is some kind of system on how Google knows if the webmaster are sincere or not on requesting reconsideration.

By: Joseba

Joseba — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:50:42 +0000

About the time, I think it depends on the penalty. If it’s something you did clearly to trick Google results then it can take more time than if the problem wasn’t really yours or somehitng done with bad intentions.

Some tips and information in spanish about the reconsideration request:
http://www.josebaumbelina.com/20090425/salir-de-una-penalizacion-de-google/

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:22:07 +0000

Thanks for this useful article, but may i know how much time Google take to remove penalty from a website?

Regs.,
Jack
http://www.pageupmedia.com

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:59:07 +0000

I have seen my search rankings drop without my PageRank having any change. And, for no apparent reason. I am considering the reconsideration request form, but I am giving it much thought, as recommended above. I beleive also that it will open the proverbial can of worms. It may just be a better use of my time to go after getting some more links (understood as- backlinks from pagerank >= my own.). The linking seems to carry more weight, if you beleive webmaster guidelines (G). Babak, above, doesnt seem to get that some of us have businesses that financially exist on whether or not a customer finds us in G. We dont just have websites with articles we have written for people to read. Those types of sites dont have their life blood depending on G search results. Mine does. Even if it is the corporate giant, I must bow before it, for now. There is also alot to be said for the blogosphere- if you cant rise up in SEO rank, then start blogging everywhere. G picks up on blogs like another site, not recognizing that the for the humna user, it leads back to my own website. This improves my exposure in search results to human consumers. I’ll have time to debate the philosophical ideas of my life’s dependence on the G supercomputers later on in my old age. Today I have to improve my rankings.

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By: Babak

Babak — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:11:20 +0000

Let me tell you one thing, a small group of engineers or managers in Google even though very talented can not decide how the Internet should evolve, most part of the Google webmaster guideline is a joke. Why we should follow a corporate and big business guideline for web development. Their web crawling system and their expectations in there is against fundamental change that is happening on the Internet. If we wanted to only please Google we should have buried Ajax, Widgets, DHTML and many other technologies which are growing fast everywhere and yet Google fails to detect contents like that and suggests avoiding them. Internet evolution is not governed by anyone period.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:19:25 +0000

One fine day, my blog disappeared from the SERP’s – i didn’t employ any un-ethical technique – thought it will recover but after a week seeing my site not rank for its own name.

I filed a reconsideration request – 2-3 weeks later – it bounced back to normal.
Till now I do not know for sure what I did wrong, G never replied.

Nevertheless, I agree with Babak above – I hope more competition will make things better.

By: Babak

Babak — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:21 +0000

According to Google there are 200 factors involved in ranking the search results, one is the PageRank. No once seems interested in questioning what are those factors? Google is playing with search results to put together the results they like and no one has a clue what is going on. And finally people sort of like it because they do not have any other option. This is a sad reality when one company dominates the search.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:56:08 +0000

Rankings do fluctuate over time, so my advice to clients is to be patient before you get to this point…

If they have done nothing wrong then there is nothing to worry about! Anyway, great resource on this topic!