While waiting to see if a recent Reconsideration Request is accepted,
I have been wondering whether or not Google regards any domain that
has ever been penalised as less trustworthy than a domain that has
not.
Or is it the case that once a penalty has been removed and a site is
placed back in the search index, it can compete on a level playing
field - as it did before the penalty?
If a site cleans up issues so that it complies with our Webmaster
Guidelines, then there's generally no reason why we would treat it as
something less trustworthy. Cleaning things up is always a good
idea :).
I submitted a lengthy Reconsideration Request on Monday and now my
fingers are firmly crossed.
It's a great encouragement to hear that Google will not hold the
penalty against my site in the longer term ... assuming that I found
all the things that needed cleaning!
That was possibly a bad idea. Can you imagine how many reconsideration
requests google probably get? How would you feel as a Google employee
having to read them! Brief and to the point wpould have probably been
much better than lengthy.
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