Wednesday, June 17, 2009
If you’ve submitted a reconsideration request via Webmaster Tools, you’ve probably wondered what
happens once Google receives it. We’ve always done our best to act upon these requests as quickly
as possible, but until now we haven’t notified webmasters once we’ve processed their requests.
As of last week, after your request has been processed, we’ll confirm this by sending a message to
your Message Center in Webmaster Tools. (Prefer to be notified by email?
You can do that too.)
Sometime after you receive a reconsideration request confirmation message, check your site’s
performance in search results. If it’s doing well, it means that Google has reviewed your site and
believes that it adheres to our
Webmaster Guidelines.
If your site still isn’t performing well in search, we recommend reviewing our Webmaster
Guidelines and also checking out
these possible reasons why your site might not be doing as well as you expect.
How we apply this
We archive Search Central announcements because client questions often trace back to a change that was announced years ago. Reading the original is faster than reconstructing it from second-hand summaries.
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