Google acquired BeatThatQuote.com on March 7th, then the day after, Google penalized BeatThatQuote for violating the Google Webmaster guidelines.

Guess what? BeatThatQuote has apparently been un-penalized by Google just two weeks after first being penalized. A search for their name in Google once again returns them at the top result:

Is two weeks long enough? Remember Google’s How & When Ranking Penalties Are Removed post? Do you think Google was penalized long enough or do you think because Google owns them they were given priority?

Related Stories::

• Google To Acquire BeatThatQuote.com
• Google Bans Itself Again By Banning BeatThatQuote.com
• Official: Google On How & When Ranking Penalties Are Removed
• AdWords Cloaks Its Help Pages, Gets Banned By Google
• Google Penalizes Google Japan For Buying Links

Related Topics: Channel: SEO | Google: Acquisitions | Google: SEO | Google: Web Search | Google: Webmaster Central | SEO: Spamming

About The Author: Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz

Connect with the author via: Email | Twitter | Google+ | LinkedIn