Penguin penalty lifted in 12 days - is that feasible?

[Whitey]

The team then made contact with all the owners of the website requesting they remove the links.

"We didn't have a very good strike rate with getting them to remove links but you have to ask," Lawry says. Yellow Octopus then collated all the data on what it had done to rectify the problem and sent a 'letter of reconsideration' to Google.

"Then your fate lies with Google," he says.

Yellow Octopus managed to get its penalty lifted within 12 days which Lawry says is "very unusual".

"These penalties can take several months to lift which could actually spell the end for a small business. Because of the gravity of the situation for us and because we rely so heavily on search for revenue we had to move quickly".
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"Unusual". Is this truly believable?

What's been your experience?

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 2:25 am (utc) on Dec 12, 2015]
[edit reason] Fixed link - forum bug [/edit]

[Bigorno]

Yes it's truly believable because it's seems to not be a Penguin penalty, but a manual one. then they did the dirty link cleaning job and were lucky to get them reconsideration request fast considered

[goodroi]

Step 1 - Claim a miraculous recovery story
Step 2 - Sit back and watch the backlinks come pouring in from news & blog sites

[dipper]

From my experience the GWT/Spam Team take near enough spot on 10 days to respond to any inbound enquiry/reconsideration requests. So, if it took you 2-3 days to fix the issue and for the problem page(s) to be recrawled, and submitted the reconsideration request .. then it is entirely possible to have a penalty removed, not usual, but possible.

[Shepherd]

Sadly, was not a penguin penalty.

Other than that, interesting story. I do wonder though, just how clean were their (yellow octopus's) hands, the story paints them as completely ignorant of the links and how they got there.

[fathom]

Agree Shepherd. Since PENGUIN is an automated algorithm Google's Webspam Team cannot interact... to do or undo.

If you got nailed by PENGUIN in October 2014, you are still waiting for PENGUIN to ReRUN.

[dipper]

the title of this post says Penguin, but the content of the OP and the SMH article describes a manual penalty and don't mention penguin.

[Whitey]

If you got nailed by PENGUIN in October 2014, you are still waiting for PENGUIN to ReRUN.

So there's a disadvantage to Penguin sufferers versus manual penalty sufferers. Hmmm.

[fathom]

There are both advantages and disadvantages to both. But obviously it's better not to get caught.

[Robert Charlton]

So there's a disadvantage to Penguin sufferers versus manual penalty sufferers. Hmmm.

Whitey, it's like the old joke that it's better to get pneumonia than to get a cold, because doctors can cure pneumonia but they can't cure colds.

[Whitey]

@Robert Charlton - lol - I like it !

[fathom]

the title of this post says Penguin, but the content of the OP and the SMH article describes a manual penalty and don't mention penguin.

I would equally concede that... But a Manual Review with a favorable response from the Webspam Team doesn't sound anymore plausible.

Getting a revoke in one reconsideration request must be what occurred and Google states in all Reject notices that they will not re-review without serversl weeks passing by.

The article concedes they didn't have much luck with link removal/editing course how long did you try even if Google's Webspam Team responds to a reconsideration request in 1 day and it took about a day to marshall your recovery task force that leaves to 10 days to attempt link removal/editing.

Google Reject notices all state you simply can't disavow your way to a revoke of a manual review.

Sound more like a malware recovery... I commonly do that it 5 days.