How do reconsideration requests work at Google?

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Please walk us through the reconsideration request process from Google's perspective. Has anything about the reconsideration process changed recently?
Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California

For more reasons why your site may not be showing up well in Google, read the "My site isn't doing well in search" article in our Help Center: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34444

Read more about changes to the reconsideration request process on our blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/reconsideration-requests-get-more.html

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