totalodds - 3:28 pm on Nov 19, 2012 (gmt 0)

Update*

So after we received our original response on Nov 12th stating

"We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines."

So we tried again using multiple tools, LRT, MajSEO & Google WMT to make a comprehensive list of all links pointing to use.

I've even uploaded to the text file both versions -

domain:mysite.com
http://www.mysite.com

I wrote another detailed reconsideration request explaining in great detail that we should have almost zero links pointing to us.

Today Novemeber 19th we got another response to our reconsideration request.

Nov 19th Google Response*

"We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines."

This is extremely frustrating for us. I even asked Google to be transparent and at least give me an example of links the can still see. But they give me nothing, just a standard response.

I'm also concerned that Google are now hand selecting which sites they want in their Serps.

Another Example: Example 2 Website with manual penalty:

We had previously done SEO on another website and went through the same process of completely removing all it's linking domains.

1. October 18th - Uploaded disavow file
2. October 20th - Filed reconsideration
3. November 15th - Google response

We've reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines.

If you notice this is just a general NO!
There is not mention of links in this response even though the manual action penalty was for "unnatural links".

I'm going to start posting on the Google product forums and hope to get a response and review from an employee. In the mean time feel free to share your success stories?

As of yet, I've not seen one manual penalty revoked.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:22 pm (utc) on Nov 19, 2012]
[edit reason] Disabled auto-link to make sample url display [/edit]