Reconsideration request

Guys, some time ago i was having some shady advertisements in my website and got banned and removed from google.

I managed to clean up all the advertisements and applied for reconsideration. Google team replied to me yesterday that my reconsideration request was processed.

Does anyone know, if i will be reindexed how much time it takes after the request was processed for google to re-index my website?

Also can you have a look at: http://www.soccerboards.com and give me your opinion if now my website is ok after removing the advertisements? I know it's a bit late for asking, but an honest opinion never hurts.

Thanks

 

it will be index as normal, dont worry just wait.

 

Most of the time they never even respond (in my experience)...

I had a site "red flagged" for almost a year. I made lots of changes and submitted 3 reinclusion requests over that time frame (one each time I made major changes). Eventually, my site just re-appeared in the index. But I never recieved an email... so I'm assuming that's a good thing and you'll be back shortly...

 

I think it will take some time but you can get index. Try to send reconsideration request once again....

 

It might take effect for few months or less but I think you can't get how your site ranks before so you need to work on building new and better links for your site to help it regain its rankings..

 

I have lots of experience in this field, not many people do and as you can see in the google forums I have had many many arguments. Normally you will see the effects immediatly. The maximum is 7 days but I really dont know of anyone that has waited that long to see results returned.

Here are my thoughts, a human is now looking at your site instead of a bot. I see a violation of google terms still. You have a section offering link exchanges. Remove this and remove your links page. You can always put it back later. But why waste time keeping it for now. your in a penalty do a full clean up get back in to SERPS then look at returning pages that might not be so favourable to the human eye.

Its unlikely you will return to serps without sorting this problem.

 

Thanks a lot for your comments.

Gazzerman, i didn't know that Link Exchange is a violation of google TOS...I will remove it as per your suggestion. It's the second day now and still my website is not indexed. I might wait for a week or so and then remove the links and reapply.

Thanks a lot everyone

PS. Yeap, i got that now:

•Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.")

Even though i only link relevant websites to my niche, i will still follow Gazzerman's advice and remove them altogether

 

Also, make sure you don't resubmit the reconsideration request. They view that as Spamming and it doesn't bode well for your cause. I've seen it take up to 3 weeks. Was the site making you money before? Have you always owned the domain?

 

@jmbinfo i always owned the domain yes...I registered it myself 7-8 years ago and i update the website daily with new content. I used to be on first page of google for many competitive keywords and i was making 5-8 euro per day from adsense.

I admit i made a mistake and i sold some links to a couple of casino websites (i must admit that they are paying very well....lol), but anyway. All these are in the past now...I removed the links and i re-applied. You believe that if i remove now the Link exchange and links section as Gazzerman advised i should not reapply?

 

Its ok to re-send as many times as you like, I have done so, but you must make sure in each request that you have made some chnages that would reflect the reason for being penalised. Spamming will only occure when doing the same thing over and over without cause.

 

You should wait for sometime. you can follow according to guidelines.

 

Selling links are ok as long as you attribute it nofollow tag. Excessive reciprocal is bad but I think you can have some reciprocal links as well.

Please refer to this guideline, when you are dealing with links
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

 

For whatever reason, when I signed up for AdWords, my account was near instantly banned. I was shocked, just a lone email from Google saying it the site was against TOS and my Adwords account was being pulled and that was it. Don't call us, we'll call you type stuff. I contacted them anyway saying there must be a mistake and listed a few reasons as to why I thought it was. They got back with me, an actual person responded, said they'd look into it and did, reinstating my account. I never figured out what it was all about, but it's cleared up and only because I contacted them.

Good luck with your situation, OP.

 

hi stathis,

your site still banned by Google and your reconsideration request should be done with in 45 days.
for more you need to review on this blog How to get out of from the Google Penalty

 

Site is still out of index. Try to request reconsideration again. From my experience with some sites, banned domains was rare returned back to index.

 

You should reappear fairly quick. Happenned to a site of mine last year, 30 day penalty, came back weak, asked for reconsideraiton request, came back stronger than ever. I think it was within a week or so of being granted the request.

 

Why do we simply accept that penalties have to be this obscure? There ought to be more transparency surrounding penalties - at least the website owner should be able to find out whether a penalty restriction is in place or not. This should be possible without giving those who try to trick the system too much information - but to the concerned website owner it takes away the guess work and saves a lot of time. Only fair?

 

I think your right to an extent, they could simpley just say if your site is under a penalty or not, I think if they explain why then thats only going to make things worse to be honest as then spammers will know what to avoid and do things that they can get away with.

But atleast if you knew you were under a penalty, then you could try and make improvements.

But again I suppose even that if they kept you to well informed, spammers would simpley do loads of testing to see what incures a penalty and then what makes the penalty go away, so not sure even thats a good idea really.

 

It seems like Google now responds to reconsideration requests. They don't say YES or NO, they simply say the request has been processed.
In my case, very shortly after the response(1-2 days) the site was back in index.