We finally sent our 3rd reconsideration request after alot of work making sure everything was squeaky clean on our site and not violating any guidelines. 3 days later (24/07/10) Google informed us that they have processed our request so the waiting begins....
I just checked in GWT and my eyes nearly fell out when I saw that the number of "URLs in web index" has suddenly fallen from around 1500 to 0! The wording they use when processing requests is "If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site". Also "Not Found" errors have got up quiet a bit but not sure if this is related. The crawl stats in GWT don't give much away (they are currently high but always up and down) but we can see that googlebot is currently spidering the site.
I appreciate they could be flushing out the index pages and starting with a clean slate but could this be a good or a bad thing, or just standard prcedure after processing a reconsideration request? Has anyone else encountered this before?
Nothing like noticing that on Monday morning to get the heart racing! Any experience shared on this greatly appreciated.
