If this is what happens when a penalty is removed, I want more penalties

[IanTheScot]

So a couple of weeks ago I posted that we had submitted a reconsideration request along with a list of about 40 spam pages that were linking to us that we had attempted to have remove their links to us. On 8/3 we received a note from Google that our manual penalty had been removed. We have thousands of inbound links so these 40 pages were a minuscule part of our links and ones that we hadn't tried to get in the first place.

So I thought "Great, our rankings should go up." Up until this point our year-to-year organic Google traffic was  between 45% and 100% over last year. As of 8/9 our traffic is now only 26%-39% above last year.

I don't think we can handle too many more penalty reversals like this one.

[irvingw]

Do you track rankings of individual keywords and can you share those results.  You might need to wait until the next Panda/Penguin update before your site gets properly reindexed.

[IanTheScot]

Yes we do. Since 8/4 we have seen some rankings go up and some go down but there isn't any kind of pattern or trend that we can see.

[IanTheScot]

So two days ago the majority of our rankings took a jump up with a few falling slightly. Our organic Google traffic has been up over 65% since then. We have a long way to go before we are back where we were in January and hopefully this adjustment is the first of a good trend.

[irvingw]

Excellent to hear its making a comeback. Can you kindly close out the ticket by marking an answer "Good Answer" . Thanks