Site penality revoked but no movement? how long?
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its now more the 30 days since google revoked the manual link penalty and still no movement in the serps I am sitting around position 350 for something I should naturally site on the first several pages..
another thing I wanted to point out, the keyword that I'm ranking 350+ for is my domain name without the .extension ( i.e. .com )
How long should I wait, or have they forgotten to remove the penalty.
Thanks,
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Hello ,
Yes, I resubmitted another request yesterday,
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have you resubmitted to them asking if they are still penalizing you? A 2nd request explaining your situation can't hurt. I have seen clients do this, although they were told "there is no longer a penalty on the site". At least they communicated.
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There must be another problem
Yes like they never removed the penalty.. IT not a competitive word and my domain is the exact word, and I end up position 350+ so nothing has been done abut the penalty..
that's my feelings..
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How long does it take?
How long is a piece of string?
Two years and counting.
There must be another problem.
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Thank you for the response..
I can assure you that the site has not been reset to its rightful position. there has been no movement either way of more then 20 positions. When you are sitting at position 350. I can assure you that the manual penalty which was applied has not been removed.. I am just thinking that perhaps they might have applied some time penalty to it in addition... hopefully due to expire soon. Not sure if that's possible.
another thing I wanted to point out, the keyword that I'm ranking 350+ for is my domain name without the .com
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I've seen sites bounce back to one degree or another within a couple weeks. HOWEVER - if a site was manually penalized, and the clean-up process involved having links removed or disavowed, it's quite likely that the site now needs to re-earn rankings that had been "falsely" propped up from those links.
It's critical to understand that major hits from manual or algorithmic based updates now essentially "reset" a site to "what should have been its rightful ranking value".
While it may be a case where you'll see the site return at least somewhat, I would not count on that happening magically. Instead, I would work on building sustainable trust signals on and off-site moving forward, with consistency over time.
And even if it does begin to bounce back, I would still work on the long term sustainable effort.
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