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.