Cleaning-Up after a Penalty

[glengara]

Just a FWIW, we know we're supposed to do a thorough site clean-up before sending in a "reconsideration" request, though that may now also include cleaning up any spammy comments left on third party sites.

"Similar to how you have removed spammy links in your own forum, you
may want to consider what you can do to help clean up similar links on
other people's sites."

John Mu, message 74

Please Help! -60 penalty from Google due to proxy site. - Crawling, indexing, and ranking | Google Groups

With thanks to Sebastians Pamphlets for highlighting this.

 

[Gavin]

Chasing those 3rd party sites would be one hell of a task.

 

[glengara]

I suspect he means stuff under our control like usernames/sig links on forums or blogs.

 

[Gavin]

That sounds reasonable and more doable.

 

[glengara]

Between all this confession, acts of contrition and promises to not stray again do you ever get the feeling Google is Catholic?

 

[Gavin]

Well considering they state:

[SIZE=-1]You can make money without doing evil.[/SIZE]

Yes I do believe they are Catholic, lol.

 

[rick22]

Yea i am preety sure that he is talking about Catholic....