Now Google has confirmed that the Google position six penalty is now being reversed.

Google “position six penalty” is when you see your ranking one or two shift downwards to position six in Google. This was noticed by many people in mid-to-late December.

Matt Cutts of Google has confirmed at Sphinn that whatever sites to be moved down to the 6th position in Google, is now being reversed. Matt said:

When Barry asked me about “position 6” in late December, I said that I didn’t know of anything that would cause that. But about a week or so after that, my attention was brought to something that could exhibit that behavior. We’re in the process of changing the behavior; I think the change is live at some datacenters already and will be live at most data centers in the next few weeks.

In general if you think a site might have a penalty (perhaps from past behavior) and you think the site is clean presently, you can do a reconsideration request in our webmaster console to ask Google to take another look at the site.

It is good thing for us that Google notice these things and do changes based on webmasters feedback.

I think this week Google AdSense is celebrating launching week :). Google has recently launched its 16th AdSense Help Forum in Hebrew language and Inside AdSense blog in Russian language.

Few days back I found a thread in Digital Point Forum where a member was disappointed because of sites disappeared from Google index. One member has replied, “so only thing they have in common is they are all listed together in your google webmaster account? “

I was really amazed and disagree with his/her reply because if it is a reason then nobody will add a site in GMA. In my opinion, submitting a site in Google Webmaster Tool is help us to tell Google about our URLs of our site. It helps to better crawl our site, how often we update our site and how much relevant importance as well. It doesn’t affect either ranking or disappear from Google Index.

Google has also clarified in webmaster blog about such type of myths.

“A Sitemap does not affect the actual ranking of your pages. However, if it helps get more of your site crawled (by notifying us of URLs we didn’t previously didn’t know about, and/or by helping us prioritize the URLs on your site), that can lead to increased presence and visibility of your site in our index. “