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Yah it took us 6 reconsideration letters to get out of the 'manual penalty'.  I thought you meant there was another way to contact them after the fact.

Yah i figure most of it would be speculation - just doing due diligence to see if i missed anything.

We've gone through GSC with a comb. No manual penalties remain(in there), received the whole 'congrats you're out of jail 'message. Still add to the disavow list every month. Did a whole onsite audit to fix any on page issues (404s, thin content, meta tags etc) Made the site responsive as well. Planning a site redesign shortly which hopefully does something.

Message to Google? How do i do that lol. Do you mean through the google product forums, or is there an actual email? We have our Adwords reps, but they have done all they can to pass along our message.

Thanks for the response!

Got hit with a manual penalty in Feb2014. Got it removed in 6 months (before the Penguin refresh). Whole site got deindexed at one point including BRAND searches. (Brand searches has since come back)

Disavowed over 20k domains (yea spam was bad). But still have a good amount of authority links such as huff post, edu, wiki, apple apps, reddit etc. About 97% of our links are on page 2 or beyond. Cant get past that spot 11 'Wall'. The suppression machine is not kind. We even had a very popular article get tons of shares, media pick up, and the original article would not rank on the first page for its title.

Our 'brand + keyword' gets about 2k searches a month. Just 'keyword' gets nothing, which i find amusing.

So whats the prognosis doc? Another year, 3 or never? Anyone else in same boat? Wait for the next penguin refresh and hope for the best?

Cheers

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hey guys,

Any updates on the ahreflang tests?

I'm in a similar boat - one site got a manual hit in Feb2014...sitewide penalty, at one point brand name was even deindexed.

Got penalty lifted in 5 months. But traffic has not recovered one bit since then.

Any way around this? Would like to find out the top social pages for a site.

thx