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Is there a known duration for the Google "Pirate Penalty"?

         

hottrout

3:35 pm on Jan 6, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I am in the aftermath of having been penalized by the DMCA or "Pirate Penalty" by Google since about October. The members that use the site are not effected and because I do not sell anything or have any advertising on the site this is not really effecting me in any real way. My annoyance is that after removing the very small amount of content listed I find that ALL my results are demoted in the search results and thus, people looking for us are no longer able to find us.

I wanted to know if anyone has any knowledge as to how long the penalty will last or is it in fact permanent?

ergophobe

12:32 am on Jan 7, 2015 (gmt 0)

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John Mueller says that it can be a long time until a site regains trust even after the cause of the penalty is rectified

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If it were not manual, but a Penguin-related, Google has confirmed that it would not happen until an algorithm or data refresh.
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