When are penalties lifted?

Hi Matt. Is there a thing like a permanent Google penalty for sites, or if the necessary fixes were made according to Google guidelines the penalties are lifted in all cases? valterchaves, flamengo

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• google
• seo
• spam
• penalties

[OptimizeGuyz]

Is the "penalty action" ever going to become publicly viewable? I have seen quite a few site owners busy scrambling in the webmaster forum trying to highlight what caused the penalty. Seems like that could help many of them out as it's not always their fault.

[alonwebtracker]

great hand choreography!!

[Meshcraft]

Why GOOGLE isn't doing it's job - Google claimed my site had affiliates to online gambling and they penalized it. Here's the problem..we are a graphic design studio and we had example images of the 3d graphics done for Top Slots, a valueware slots PC game, and they thought it was for online gambling. They didn't take the extra 2 seconds to actually look at what it was. 99.9% of visitors would never think it was for some online gambling thing.

We are a graphic design company.

[helmutsmeskonis]

Hi

simple, human thank you for another valuable lesson / in this case about the topic we see in our nightmares :D

Helmuts

p.s. have you stopped making videos??

[agapitoflores001]

I hope my site does not get penalized if ever I'd make a mistake with penalty sites.

[askpersonaltrainers]

Is PANDA considered a PENALTY or part of your ALGORITHM?

[Esqucha]

Herşeyi beceriyorsunuz bir tek şunları Türkçe altyazılı yapamıyorsunuz.

[ben74xx]

sure they gotta tell you, at least, why your site is penalized ,

as you get an evil, bad minded rival, he gets whatever opportunity to get your site penalized, and you might spend more than 2 month on reconsideration requests until they'll drop it off, never knowing the reason of it

[tchatchewebcam]

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[Valhalla1]

Thanks for the video Matt. It's comforting to know there are people behind the big Google machine, who are willing to manually look at penalty situations and act. I echo some other concerns here about the frustrations of not knowing the exact cause for a penalty. My site for example has been under whats known in the webmaster world as a "google 950" penalty for a week and I have no idea why yet. But I plan on exhaustively poring over every line of html and triple checking the guidelines.