@scottpolk 241645 wrote:
Do you have any proof of that? Just curious if you would share an example .. recent?
I experienced the same thing. But I had 301 from a popular site that was hit hard to a low traffic and light on content site that had been around page 3 and page 2 for the same big keywords. After a few days it looked like the 301 was working, and traffic started to go back to how it was on old domain.. as they indexed more pages it continued to improve.. around the 12 day mark it started to drop the pages back to where they landed from the penalization, then around 20 days mark they started to move back to the positions they originally had with non penalized domain.
My hope is that now with a much better site on the old not penalized domain, and with all the content that in the next little while Ill see improvements in rankings from that.
But I can definitely vouch for casinotime’s claim that around the 10 – 15 day mark the clean domain gets passed the penalty.
I think making reconsideration requests will work, but not without doing some work. Ive got back a bunch of replies to my reconsideration requests and google is wanting me to remove bad links to my sites.
So Im working on that, but also working on new domains in case they are just too picky and demand more than I can do in terms of removing links on sites I dont own.
Hope that helps… remember guys, you haven’t lost until the moment you quit… its the hard stuff that we don’t like doing that makes us rich etc..