Google Reconsideration Request??

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Has anyone ever submitted (successfully or not) a Google reconsideration request?

A few of our domains got absolutely nailed by Penguin, mainly due to shady backlinking tactics in the past, and I am considering submitting a request.

Anyone have any information or advice about this process? Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author scott g
    I've had Google manually lift a ban or whatever it was on two of my sites. Had some hidden backlinks... Stupid stuff a couple years back... Very blackhat... In the reconsideration, I don't remember exactly, I told them on one that I think a Wordpress plugin compromised a site and it was all removed, and the other was a malicious line of code hidden in an html site...

    Couple days later I received the messages say they manually reversed the action that was taken.

    I've submitted reconsiderations for sites that were just poorly ranking before too... But that didn't do anything LOL! Hey it's worth a shot though! Maybe it will work for you! It's not like they're going to penalize you for submitting a reconsideration request.. And if they did you probably wouldn't notice right??!! :p I kid I kid! Just try it out.

    GOOD LUCK!
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  • Profile picture of the author SwedishDemocracy
    Scott, how specific were you in your request? I've heard it's best to be as transparent as possible throughout the entire process, as Google pretty much knows what we're up to anyways. This includes mentioning any black hat techniques we may have used in the past, etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author scott g
      Originally Posted by SwedishDemocracy View Post

      Scott, how specific were you in your request? I've heard it's best to be as transparent as possible throughout the entire process, as Google pretty much knows what we're up to anyways. This includes mentioning any black hat techniques we may have used in the past, etc.
      That's weird... In my reconsideration submissions (the two that got reversed anyways) I was as detailed as possible... Though I was blowing complete smoke up their arse... I was as thorough and as detailed as I possibly could be. I told them I found these hidden links that were in the code but not visible on the page (indent -9999 etc.).

      I know what's good and what's bad so I just tried to make it as clear as possible "look I found out what's going on and I'm sorry I let this happen but now I fixed it."

      For the sites that I was unhappy with their rankings (site-to-site comparisons with competition and my sites were actually better) I basically told them why my site was better Lol!! Come to think of it I think that did actually work once... I had a very competitive niche site hit #1 and stay there for about 9-months without doing anything thereafter...

      If you send them a very vague, crap excuse - that's transparent and they're not stupid. If you're real detailed and put some time into your reconsideration request... You might end up winning. Although, reconsideration requests are for when sites get sandboxed (bad bad rankings b/c sandbox doesn't exist ) - when your site doesn't load or has malicious/hidden code on it... They don't want visitors being referred to those sites from the big G. So saying my rankings suck WTF?! Probably won't help a whole, whole lot. Honestly. But that's just my opinion and my experience with reconsideration requests.
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      • Profile picture of the author SwedishDemocracy
        Originally Posted by scott g View Post

        That's weird... In my reconsideration submissions (the two that got reversed anyways) I was as detailed as possible... Though I was blowing complete smoke up their arse... I was as thorough and as detailed as I possibly could be. I told them I found these hidden links that were in the code but not visible on the page (indent -9999 etc.).

        I know what's good and what's bad so I just tried to make it as clear as possible "look I found out what's going on and I'm sorry I let this happen but now I fixed it."

        For the sites that I was unhappy with their rankings (site-to-site comparisons with competition and my sites were actually better) I basically told them why my site was better Lol!! Come to think of it I think that did actually work once... I had a very competitive niche site hit #1 and stay there for about 9-months without doing anything thereafter...

        If you send them a very vague, crap excuse - that's transparent and they're not stupid. If you're real detailed and put some time into your reconsideration request... You might end up winning. Although, reconsideration requests are for when sites get sandboxed (bad bad rankings b/c sandbox doesn't exist ) - when your site doesn't load or has malicious/hidden code on it... They don't want visitors being referred to those sites from the big G. So saying my rankings suck WTF?! Probably won't help a whole, whole lot. Honestly. But that's just my opinion and my experience with reconsideration requests.
        Thank you so much Scott, this helps tremendously. I'll keep you updated on how it turns out.
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    Ya I have.

    It requires hard work and diligent tracking if you want to see any type of real success though.

    You need to check your backlinks and identify the bad links, then reach out and contact, keeping track of everything. After you've gotten some links removed and did the best you can do a reconsideration request.

    The thing is theres an easier service called LinkDelete.com that will manage that for you. Im trying that on a new clients site and rwill report back soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
    Originally Posted by SwedishDemocracy View Post

    Has anyone ever submitted (successfully or not) a Google reconsideration request?

    A few of our domains got absolutely nailed by Penguin, mainly due to shady backlinking tactics in the past, and I am considering submitting a request.

    Anyone have any information or advice about this process? Thanks in advance.
    You don't submit reconsideration requests for penguin.
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    • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
      Originally Posted by scottmacair View Post

      You don't submit reconsideration requests for penguin.
      Yep Google said not to file any reconsideration requests for Penguin.

      This is only for unnatural link warnings...
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      • Profile picture of the author SwedishDemocracy
        Originally Posted by DizenSounds View Post

        Yep Google said not to file any reconsideration requests for Penguin.

        This is only for unnatural link warnings...
        Can you provide any source for this information? I haven't heard anything like that.
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        • Profile picture of the author Elle Holder
          Originally Posted by SwedishDemocracy View Post

          Can you provide any source for this information? I haven't heard anything like that.
          If I remember correctly - I had to do a reconsideration about 5 or 6 years ago - you can only make the request if you've been affected by a manual slap. If you got slapped because of an algo change, your are SOL. Just fix what needs to be fixed and hope that with the next refresh they approve of the changes and reward you accordingly.

          I could be wrong, but I think that was the way it worked.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sanay Sharma
    If your website is down because of goolge penguin, you should not submit reconsideration request to google. Infect they will not pay any attention in this case, you will have to take some new steps to overcome google penguin penalty.
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