Has anybody recovered yet to pre-service rankings? I submitted my reconsideration request on Tuesday. How long does it take to get reviewed?
Yes, my website seems to be recovering quite well so far, while HREFS shows not all high PR links are removed / crawled yet. Page 7 was the highest page pre-service, yesterday it was on page 7 again and right now it's actually on page 6. But it'll probably bounce around a lot during the next few weeks. During the time the 150 high PR links were active, the highest position reached was #1 on page 2 (heavy comp keyword with about 60K monthly exact searches).
No reconsideration request has been submitted.
I'm actually considering a new high PR links membership, as it seems to be true that Google doesn't de-index websites for unnatural link building. The trick is to get some ROI, before (!) Google starts to destroy your rankings. Then let it recover and do it again.
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