Reconsideration is often a controversial process when it comes up at Town Meeting. Since this came up last Monday (May 11), I figured an explanatory letter was in order. For those of you who enjoy the ...

If your website has received a manual penalty notice from Google, then your first step is to repair the site so it complies with Google’s quality guidelines. Once that work is done, you’ll then have ...

Has your site received a manual action by Google? Here are some best practices when requesting reconsideration for your website. The process is simple. First, you will have to do the work to fix the ...

Google seems to have updated the language and terminology they use in their reconsideration request responses to webmasters. Marie Haynes posted an example of a response to a successful ...

In a Webmaster Hangout, someone asked John Mueller about examples of bad links that Google sent his client. The problem was that the sample links were nofollow. Google’s John Mueller explained why ...