Did your "reinclusion" sites get back in?

If you sent a reinclusion email to Google, did the site get back in?

[Perfection]

During the last update Googleguy said that if your site was ever banned and you think now it has fixed whatever it was banned for, that you should email Google a reinclusion request.

For those of you who did, did your site get back in this update? Mine didn't. There isn't even a slight possibility of anything on this site that could have made Google look at it again, and say no, keep this site penalized, yet it still is. Which is why I wonder, did anyone actually get back in?

[paulb1]

Hi all, i submitted a reinclusion request a couple of months ago and i didn't get back in with the last update, so i resubmitted again a few days ago and i noticed in my logs today that freshbot has vistited my site, does this mean i will be back in next month or does freshbot visit sites which have obtained a penalty anyway.

Thanks

[DavidT]

Freshbot is a regular visitor to my penalised site. Cant imagine why it bothers.

[jeremy goodrich]

Yes, freshbot was all over my site for more than a year while it was banned...

very strange. Nothing on the site changed, but since they said, "we'll look at it..." and then they added it, I can only assume they must have 'fixed' something to allow my site to receive credit for the dmoz listing, and the other links that it has had, most for nearly a year...

Makes you wonder about those 'auto' penalties, though, doesn't it? I mean, if it *was* automatic, what triggered it? As nothing changed since it was 'allowed' in, then there must not have been something wrong with the site / pages.

A stray link / something off site / could have done it?

Nope, GoogleGuy is on record here as saying, "competitor's can't hurt your site..."

So, I wonder - what gives? While I know that we are left to ponder the mysteries of Google penalties and what not, this one has got me stumped.

:) Perhaps that's why they do it -> to keep people on their toes?

[rankme]

carlr and paulb1:

>Does Google sends any reply/info before inclusion
I didn't get a reply. Just the happy surprise in my log files.

>freshbot has vistited my site...
Last month, I checked obsessively for freshbot and the deep crawl. Freshbot always has dropped in and out, and continued to do so.

The deep crawler *did* go through a few days after my request, yet the pages appearing in the index (with one exception) are all from the old site that was pulled down prior to the crawls. This seems consistent with what others are reporting in the update thread.

[GoogleGuy]

One thing to bear in mind is that we have a finite number of user support people, so they periodically revisit that queue and pass all the requests on at that time.

I'll ask about reducing the latency from when a request comes in until it gets passed on to a spam expert.

[rfgdxm1]

>Makes you wonder about those 'auto' penalties, though, doesn't it? I mean, if it *was* automatic, what triggered it? As nothing changed since it was 'allowed' in, then there must not have been something wrong with the site / pages.

A false filter hit must have got your site crushed by the jackboot of the Google algo. If your site was clean, then obviously Google has some buggy filters.

[EliteWeb]

Jeremy said 'Nope, GoogleGuy is on record here as saying, "competitor's can't hurt your site..." '

I agree with this if your site is clean, if your competitor can pick out your spam attempt or hack to get to the top and report it they can effect and hurt your site :)

Spam Experts, these are the guys who know the rules inside and out -- what a fun job. Do any of them have sites so I can see the borders they walk, and know how the algarythm changes as they update their sites to abide by all rules? ;) Or is it like the contests, if your a part of the company you can't participate (:~

[TerryMc]

It would also be nice if you had a penalty on your site, if there was some way we could find out about it instead of guessing with a PR0, blank PR or even a reduced PR. I also think I messed up on some external crosslinks and went from PR5 to PR4. But its hard to tell what it is. I like the idea above of some way of finding out if your site(s) are acceptable to "google terms"

[bluemi]

I sent a reinclusion request and got a reply from Google just after a few days, telling me that my site had not been penalized, as I originally thought. I certainly can't complain!