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ipm
Joined: Feb 28, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Feb-28 16:04
I would like to have feedback from anyone that has submitted a Google reconsideration request. Did you get good results, worst results or nothing at all? Do you actually get a response from a support team?
I am considering submitting a request because I have one of my pages (a sub-page but an important one) which has always ranked number 1 in Google for a keyword, but it dropped considerably about 2 months ago. It is now positioned between 300-350. Even worst is that all my other pages have also dropped a bit in Google at about the same time. The page is still #1 in MSN and #2 in Yahoo, so this seems to be a Google issue. I am worried that I got this penalty after running a "contest" to get some social bookmarking links. I have stopped running such contests about a month ago, but no changes.
Should I submit a reconsideration request? I don't do anything I consider to be black-hat SEO, but I'm still afraid to submit a request to Google after all the paid link fuss.
Thanks for any help.
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Quadrille
Joined: Nov 15, 2000
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Posted: 2008-Feb-28 21:01
Be sure the site has been thoroughly fixed before you consider asking for reinclusion.
But in your case, there's zero point, as the site is already included.
If it's there, but ranking badly, reinclusion is just not the issue.
And if it's ranking badly in Google, but OK elsewhere, then it's likely to be a links issue.
Check all your outgoing links for dead sites, spam sites, scam sites, paidlinks, non-related reciprocals and anything else even vaguely suspicious. Then check again.
Then run xenu, and see if there's any surprises there. Then check the links again.
If you recognise that links degrade badly over time, it doesn't take many to fail or become porn or whatever to do damage. Google checks them regularly, you need to as well.
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ipm
Joined: Feb 28, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Feb-29 06:06
Ok I will check my links. BTW, Google has changed the request name from reinclusion to reconsideration since not every penalty leads to removal from the index:
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Quadrille
Joined: Nov 15, 2000
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Posted: 2008-Feb-29 09:51
Sorry, Old Habits Die Hard - and I'd missed that.
So 'precipitous drop' is grounds for asking for reconsideration ... but my advice remains the same; it's probably links, and don't ask until you've done a very thorough cleanup, as a second request in unlikely to get much sympathy!
full details are here:How do I request reconsideration of my site?.
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