Comments on: Reconsideration Requests: The True Turtle Dove

By: joseph lautier

joseph lautier — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:55:55 +0000

Good info all round. The problem is that, in my case, i had no prior warning for a site of mine in GWT, and then it suddenly disappeared. Moreover I dont know if it was because of a manual spam report or panda or penguin or something else.
How will i know? I know it still exists in the index as a site command shows it is still there. Otherwise no pages, not even my home page turn up for keywords i used to rank highly for in google serps!!

Any ideas please and keep up the good work!

By: Paweł Rabinek

Paweł Rabinek — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:31:03 +0000

Thanks for this useful post. I’m sending a request for one ow my websites now and I hope it will be accepted …

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:12:35 +0000

Hi, recently my site just got de indexed and I am trying to fix the problems and will file a reconsideration afterwards. My concern is, if I file a reconsideration will some of my sites registered in my name or my sites hosted in the same server along with the de-indexed site, will google look at those other sites? Will those other sites be examined as well or google would not care taking a loot at other sites I have?

Many Thanks, would really appreciate your help

By: Siobhan

Siobhan — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:58:04 +0000

I have to sadly agree with Patrick. Different story for me (I think) as I was hit badly by the Panda updates, not a manual penalty. There is considerable duplicate content of a few of my pages and it’s my site that is being dropped. Despite what I’ve read, Google does not have the facility to differentiate between original, older content and more recent, copied material. And it seems to be an avalanche – all my pages are being dropped lower and lower. Sigh. I’m not putting in a reconsideration request as there’s nothing major to fix. It’s like hitting my head against a brick wall. ~Siobhan

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:19:09 +0000

You should also mention that sometimes, it doesn’t matter what you do , what you say or how good you get your site, your reconsideration requests still get the thumbs down. All you get from google is, sorry your site still violates. You should also mention that Google can and does use all their tools at their disposal to take out sites that are owned by the same individual even when the site(s) clearly does not and has never violated their TOS. This includes GA, GWT, WHOIS and got knows what else. Moral of the story, sometimes, it doesn’t matter what you do, if google says to soup for you, you ‘re screwed.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:25:48 +0000

Yeah, I had to deal with this for several months. Real pain in the butt but I learned a lot from it.