How long does it take before a site is back in the SERP after a manual spamaction is revoked
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Hi,
A client of ours has a website with a manual spam action (duplicate content). Because they made some mistakes with redirects while moving the site from a URL to another google penitalized the site.
We fixed the errors and the spamction is revoked.
My question is how long it ussualy takes before the first results are back in the SERP. In WMT Google says "some time". But has anyone got some more information on it?
Best Regards,
Sam
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Not the most helpful answer, but it's the best anyone can probably give at the same time...the truth is, no-one really knows an exact answer. Some people report it taking a few weeks, some a few months; it just varies and can also be affected by algorithmic penalties too.
It's important to note that with these algorithmic penalties you won't be informed about them, so if there has been any poor SEO methods used in the past then it's probably worth correcting ASAP.
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