A new answer for my Reconsideration Request

[dolcevita]

Dear site owner or webmaster of .............,

We received a request from a site owner to reconsider ........... for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site's ranking in Google. There's no need to file a reconsideration request for your site, because any ranking issues you may be experiencing are not related to a manual action taken by the webspam team.
etc etc...

Is this now standard message? Because i've received it after i filled reconsideration request 2 weeks a ago.

Anyway. Something confuse me. I monitor probably 50-75 keywords a couple days in week for 8 years old website and if you see that all terms are gonna in one day then first thing that you have in your mind is penalty.

Furthermore this is now 3x time in last 8 years that something like that happen. After 3 or 6 or even 12 months site is fully recover and everything is back to normal with old positios.

From one side i'm happy of course because there is not manual spam found and from another side i know that there is something wrong. Actually i do not know what to believe because i'm still convinced that there is penalty set.

There can not be any logical explanation to going from position top 10 or top 20 to position 100+ for all terms.

[edited by: tedster at 9:20 am (utc) on Apr 20, 2011]
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[tedster]

It does look like new wording to me. Basically it is saying that you don't have a MANUAL penalty - however, you may still have a penalty assigned by automatic algorithm.

Matt Cutts recently published a video [youtube.com] explaining that Reconsideration Requests will not have any effect if the lower ranking is the result of an automatic algorithm rather than a manual penalty.

[indyank]

This has been the new stand adopted by Google. Since they call panda as an algorithmic change, any reconsideration request for affected sites would receive this kind of response.

Matt cutts had said this recently and since then google has been delivering these responses.

[dolcevita]

If there is not clear that you do not have penalty then is this message confusing.
Not manual penalty means from one side you site is good and you follow webmaster guidelines. It is human view.

Automatic penalty (what is probably scenario here) means your site is not good from our automatic algorithm.
So what we have here is Google human from one side who tell you everything is alright vs Google machine automatic alghoritm who does not tell you anything.

Confusing, confusing and one Google side ignore other Google side. I thought that human review count always more.
But...

[tedster]

No manual penalty can mean that no human being reviewed your site, or that no one reported your site for spam.

It doesn't necessarily mean someone actually looked at your site manually and gave it a passing grade or something like that.