What is the average response time for Reconsideration request

[BelfastSEO]

I know that Google states 'several' weeks but just wondering if anybody has any experience with a Reconsideration request and if they got any type of reply and what their general experience was.

thanks

[RyanKent]

I have only filed one reconsideration request this year. It was a 3 week response time.

[BelfastSEO]

Was that an acutal written response?

[RyanKent]

Actually I will correct my original response.

On Mar 22, I filed a reconsideration request. The site involved had received a manual penalty from Google which had previously been confirmed by Google in writing.

On April 2nd, I received a response from Google via WMT titled "We've processed your reconsideration request".

The response stated "We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it is in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site."

Immediately upon receipt of that message, I was able to find the site had been added to Google's index.

[AlexFusman]

I recently filed a reconsideration request and got a response within a week. It was a standard form letter and appeared only in WMT (not in an email to me). In that particular case my reconsideration request was not approved. After I filed another request a few days later, it took about 3 weeks to receive the next response.

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey Barry

Having a bit of insight into your problem from our email discussion, I think you will find that making the changes will be enough and your site will just pop out of the filter when the problems are resolved.

I may be wrong, it's a one way flow of information with Google on this so definitely make the request but expect anything up to the seven weeks. Though, even post panda when i  guess they were getting hammered, one site I helped got responded to in around 4 weeks so... 3 is a good bet.

Cheers

Marcus

[PeterAlexLeigh]

It took 2 weeks for us a few months ago, but we were simply told that the site did not have a penalty.

We made some changes both internally and created some better links and we were back up the rankings,