my site was caught due to spam activity by google on April 4. traffic dropped from 10k to only 300. after reconsideration request, Manual panelty was removed on April 19. April 26. there is no effect in traffic. even search impressions in webmaster tools. any body can tell me that how much time my site will take to come back in routine?
If penalty is really removed, then you just sit & relax for few days. GWT will show the insights very soon. Nothing to get tensed.
recieved spam panelty notice in wmt. After reconsideration request, google confirm that panelty is revoked.
personal experience may be in month or two, i also was penalized in feb and submitted reconsideration request and two days ago penalty revoke.
wmt sometimes freaks me out, showing unrelated data ... How come wmt shows 10k pageviews and statcounter which is real shows 1000 unique visits ... I wrote to google WMT team, but got no reply regardin this question..
another question regarding my first post.. i received the notification of manual spam penalty for my MAIN domain. i want to know, the ban also effect on all SUB-DOMAINS? there was huge drop (crawling+ranking+traffic) on all subdomains from the date of Notification. i read somewhere that sub-domains works as individual site? is that true?
Your domain is responsible for all subdomains directories etc. Hence you have to re-check your sub-domains also. Go slow, that won't make you looser. But going fast with mistake may make you looser. I wish your issues will be resolve very soon.
@DhrubaJyotiDeka thanks for your reply. there are no notifications regarding any of my subdomain. any one else pleas confirm it..
Sorry, if you have a moment could you tell me what you did to get the penalty? - So I & others can avoid the same thing happening. When you say "LINK SCHEMES" - what kind of linking were you doing that caused the penalty? Thanks
"link schemes" means programs/sites where members/user place CODE to their sites. after implementing the code to your sites, all members/users of that site/program exchange links with each others with or without your confirmation. if there are 10k members of the program/scheme , its means you will get 10k links at once... that is against the TOS of Google. site that offers this service is.. linklister.com so never try these type of services.