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Was that an acutal written response?

I know that Google states 'several' weeks but just wondering if anybody has any experience with a Reconsideration request and if they got any type of reply and what their general experience was.

thanks

The website has thousands of quality links and these are added on a weekly basis as it is in a very competitive category....Even more so in the last month since this happened.

Let's hope that it bounces back but in my opinion this feels like a penalty.

Hi Shelly

Yes I'm definitely thinking about sending a re-consideration request.  I guess my main issue is why the hell don't Google tell you if you've done something wrong!

To answer you questions the site is still on Google just dropped considerably.  It has a healthy page rank of 52.

Cheers for that.  I can't post the link as don't want to give out my clients details.  However if you give me your email I can send it to you.

Thanks

Hi thanks for replying.

Yes the website has very strong content and the backlink profile is very good.  The site was ranking well for about 6 months in roughly the same position so this has came out of the blue on the only thing I've done differently was set up the links page.

It has also came to my attention that the sites I was linking to may be bad neighbourhoods.

On your point about devaluation - yes the site has 2 or 3 sites linking with sponsored links.  They provide a large number of links.

Hi

I stupidly thought that it would be a good idea to set up a reciprocal links page on my website named 'links'.  I did this because my competitors were linking to these pages so I though it would be a good idea and I genuinely didn't know that you could be punished for this.  Within about 3 weeks my rank dropped about 3 pages.

I have since removed the links and the page was cached last Friday but the site still appears to have a penalty.  I assumed when Google cached the page and saw the links were not there anymore that the penalty would be lifted.

Anyone got any ideas?

ps. The competitor websites had broken their links pages into various categories relating to the website i.e. related directories etc. so this might be why they weren't penalized.

Hi

I've been rather silly and been linking out to other websites for reciprical links.  I added about 20 and just discovered some were bad neigbourhoods.  On Sunday my rankings tanked but the page was only cached the following day on the Monday.  Just wondering if there is any connection.

I genuinely did not know that linking out could was bad and have removed all reciprical links as a precaution.

Yes but the problem I find with Yahoo is that it only lists 1000.  And I'm not sure what order these are in.

Thanks I took a look at the links:domain.com method and I can see a lot of the links that I added.

Basically OSE hasn't updated since I've started.  Will be interesting to see how long it takes.