Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"? This just recently happened to one of my clients. "Pure spam" is actually a type of spam definition Google gives websites it feels has performed the most egregious types of spam actions.
Google posted a new article today answering common questions about submitting reconsideration requests and managing your backlink profile. Google Search Quality representatives, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz, co-authored the article, going through the more common questions on this topic. Google says you should really only submit a reconsideration request when you receive a manual penalty [...]
As you perhaps know, Google's Penguin 2.0 was rolled out on May 22, 2013. The reaction of the SEO world has been intense - at Warrior Forum alone, dozens of new threads dedicated to Penguin popped up overnight.
