Should we be worried about a penalty if we quickly removed hacked content?

Should we be worried about a penalty if we quickly removed hacked content?

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Added on Monday 22 March 2010 12:12:00
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Maxster in Mexico asks: "Site hacks have been on the rise, especially on CMS platforms like Joomla and WordPress. If our site was hacked and damage was done by the hackers (doorway pages inserted and spammed) but removed within days do we have to worry about a penalty?"

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agapitoflores001

It gave me no worries.
Sunday 13 November 2011 02:04:19
mfdotcom

I had a site running the previous version of WordPress where a hacker injected code to show a 301 permanent redirect to the GoogleBot, but normal visitors were not affected and shown the site normally. It screwed search rankings for awhile, but was fixed soon enough and oddly Google didn't notice.
Saturday 27 March 2010 03:51:28
OldWelshGuy

I have seen a few sites that were hacked to serve PRN, and got seriously slapped. down. Many have bounced back real quick 9as we caught them early enough), but others where the site owners didn't click what the problem was for loss of traffic (and sales) took months. Same procedures for all sites, remove, clean, check, double check, triple check, then submit a re-inclusion request, identical process for all sites. But one particular site just took ages to come back good.
Monday 22 March 2010 19:49:07
adamjthompson

He said "webmaster console"...yeh, he meant webmaster tools. :)
Monday 22 March 2010 16:38:37
daronsneed

If I submit a request to re-submit my site after a hack attack...how long does it usually take Google to respond? Or do they put my site in a queue to be re-crawled next scheduled date?
Monday 22 March 2010 14:32:46
ramakrishna05081984

webmaster council means web master tools??? Hacking is really on rise ,,,, gettin headech with those bumps doin some nasty stuff on our site. I had my site got hacked, but corrected it in an hour or so ....
Monday 22 March 2010 13:43:42
GAcube

Good question, good answer :)
Monday 22 March 2010 12:37:33