My website recently got penalized by google and i got a message from Google for the same, i did few changes and also give request for two times. Now when i again checked my websmaster tool a/c there is no problem but still website is not in index. Why ? Please have a look on attached images. Google has also crawled the website and downloaded the sitemap as well.
when you're banned by BigG a red stripe will appear in webmaster console. i have one domain banned, bought in the aftermarket and haven't succeeded yet to make them reconsider it :|
Google crawling and downloading your website sitemap does not mean that your pages will be indexed by Google. Google will look for unique content. If it's duplicate content, there are high chances that it won't be indexed.
I'm dealing with same situation... no longer says its removed from the index, but no pages are showing in google still.. anyone?
It takes time to be relisted - have patience. And in the meantime, be sure to research things that cause bans so you'll know not to do it again!
maybe, you have made a greate mistake against google's guidelines. ij not, it would't take such a long time for google to re-index your site.