Reconsideration request approved: Search Engine Land’s ultimate guide to Google penalties and messages

Google’s manual penalty removal triggers a short, uniform reconsideration request approved notification. Aside from mentioning that the penalty has been lifted, this notification makes it clear that coming back into compliance with Google Webmaster Guidelines does not necessarily mean that your site will experience improved rankings in organic Google Search. The site may grow in visibility, stagnate or drop.

There’s no further action required once this message is received, other than focusing on users and the core of the website activity again. It is the best possible outcome to be expected.

Reconsideration request approved notification says the spam situation is resolved and there is no further action required.

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Kaspar Szymanski

Kaspar Szymanski is a founding member of SearchBrothers.com and a well-known Google Search expert specializing in recovering websites from Google penalties and helping websites improve their rankings with SEO Consulting. Before founding SearchBrothers.com, Kaspar was part of the Google Search Quality team, where he was the driving force behind global web spam tackling initiatives and the public face spearheading Google webmaster outreach and communication efforts.