Reinclusion Request - Ever Had A Real Response

....anyone had more than the form / script response?

[JimLahey]

Okay, you always get the auto response that refers to the guidelines; however, if you simply respond back I am already aware of that..what about my original email / case. Does Google ever send anything more than:

<generaic boilerplate email - we can't give individual responses, etc, etc>

...has anyone ever had a response more than that?

<Sorry, no email quotes.
See Terms of Service [webmasterworld.com]>

[edited by: tedster at 11:47 pm (utc) on June 9, 2006]

[Komodo_Tale]

Yes. I made an inquiry about a domain I recently registered. I came across some weird results that suggested it was an older expired domain. When I asked through the Google Sitemaps Reinclusion Request form I received a very friendly email from a real person assuring me that there were no penalties on my page.

At an SES conference in Seattle a Google employee said that they will help webmasters who appear to have made amatuerish violations and that they are working to make their feedback program even better. They also said that they will probably not respond when agregious black hat behaviour is apparent. (My words, not theirs. I am paraphrasing.)

Having met the Google Sitemaps team I have to say that they are a wonderful group and that I was impressed.

[JimLahey]

It sounds like a may have to signup for that program to get a real answer from someone. Thanks

[Komodo_Tale]

It's a good idea. You can sign-up without actually submit tinga sitemap to Google and you will still their analytics and reports.

[arbitrary]

Great!

So if you don't get a response then you should assume egregious black-hat behaviour is the cause.

[eclipse]

Where in google sitemaps is form for Reinclusion Request ?

[arubicus]

"Where in google sitemaps is form for Reinclusion Request?"

You know I remember seeing one on the summary page a while back but no longer see it there.

[Mokita]

It is still there - on the "My Sites" page (where you can add or remove sites) at the bottom looking like this:

Tools

Download this table
Download data for all sites
Report spam in our index
Submit a re-inclusion request

[CA_Supp]

[mattcutts.com...]

[toothake]

Just a question.If one site was down for a month (not anymore) and Google has already deindexed the 1/3 of that site ,does the site needs a RR.Does anyone knows?

[Dayo_UK]

Komodo_Tale

How long did you have to wait for a response when you did a reinclusion request through sitemaps?

[Komodo_Tale]

1) The link from the Matt Cutts blog is outdated and predates the Sitemaps form. Per SES Seattle, the place to do a reinclusion request is from Google Sitemaps.

2) It was no more than two weeks before I received a response.

[wmuser]

They do reply sometimes and telling that their engineers will look over it.