Is a reconcideration request required?
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I have a smaller site that has a google penalty, webmaster tools says there might be a doorway page. Im wondering if, once the site is fixed, is it necessary to file a reconsideration request, or, if the site is no longer in violation, will the site be included eventually by itself, without a reconsideration request?
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I loved it: google hey, i want humans to come.
Very good.
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A reconsideration request is fine, as long as you're sure that nothing else is bad about your site. You're telling Google that "hey, I want humans to come look at this site and look for anything they may find wrong about it, not just the stuff that I think I found". So as long as you think everything else is good, I think it should be fine. It's when you've only cleaned up half of the paid links coming into your site, and have a few pages of hidden text lying around still that it's not the best thing.
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I think that reconsideration should be made to follow up the response from Google. I think it will not hurt you, and can help.
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The reconsideration request is just to speed things up. Google will eventually crawl back over your site, but since you know about and have access to this short-cut, there really isn't any reason not to take it
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