Google Reconsideration Response Time

[AnthonyHall]

Hi all,

3 of my websites have received a massive hit from Penguin/Panda due to exact phrase links.

I have had all the links changed so that they are completely different, and submitted a reconsideration request to Google.

Would anyone be able to tell me roughly how long it takes to get a response from a Google reconsideration request?

Thanks,

Anthony

[TomRayner]

The man himself says it shouldn't take longer than a couple of weeks.

I've found this to be largely accurate - I think the longest I've waited for was 17 days (but hey, who's counting?!)

Hope this helps.

[MarieHaynes]

If you've been affected by Penguin or Panda then unfortunately a reconsideration request won't help.  Penguin and Panda are algorithmic changes and you can only recover once the algorithms refresh.

Reconsideration requests are to be used when you have a manual warning in your webmaster tools.  If you don't have a manual warning, then you will get a message back saying that there have been no manual actions taken against your site.

I have found that it usually takes about 3 weeks to get a reply from a reconsideration request.  Lately I've had some replies within just a few days.  When the disavow tool first came out it was taking up to 2 months to get a reply because so many people were using it and sending in reconsideration requests.