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(Entry was posted by David Jones on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/21/2014).

I`ve never known a reconsideration request to take this long, anyone else had this?

A site of ours had its PR reduced and got an `unnatural outbound` links penalty after the MyBloGuest Google penalty 2 months ago as we used a few guest posts from there in the past, I cleaned up as many of the links as I could find and submitted a reconsideration request and Google replied within 2 weeks saying we needed to do more clean up, so this time I nuked lots of links and submitted another reconsideration request with a full list of all the pages we`d removed links from, that was a month ago and still nothing back from them, Ive never known a reconsideration request to take this long, anyone else had this? ?
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  • David Jones: A site of ours had its PR reduced and got an 'unnatural outbound' links penalty after the MyBloGuest Google penalty 2 months ago as we used a few guest posts from there in the past, I cleaned up as many of the links as I could find and submitted a reconsideration request and Google replied within 2 weeks saying we needed to do more clean up, so this time I nuked lots of links and submitted another reconsideration request with a full list of all the pages we'd removed links from, that was a month ago and still nothing back from them, Ive never known a reconsideration request to take this long, anyone else had this? ;
  • Jeenfer Wilson: Have you provided Google a concrete proof of all your efforts?
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:26:36 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/ive_never_known_a_reconsideration_request_to_take_this_long_anyone_else_had_this +David Jones

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