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Marie Haynes was discussing this on another thread but I think it deserves it's own discussion!
In my experience, you cannot rank in the 3-pack with a penalty because if you don't rank high organically, it's almost impossible to rank in the 3-pack. Every now and then I do see a business ranking there that has no website or has no high organic ranking, but it's not generally for competitive keywords.
We had a client a couple years ago that came to us with a manual penalty. We got it removed but his ranking didn't increase. Then when Penguin 3.0 refreshed last year, his rankings shot up everywhere (organic & local).
What have you found?
In my experience, you cannot rank in the 3-pack with a penalty because if you don't rank high organically, it's almost impossible to rank in the 3-pack. Every now and then I do see a business ranking there that has no website or has no high organic ranking, but it's not generally for competitive keywords.
We had a client a couple years ago that came to us with a manual penalty. We got it removed but his ranking didn't increase. Then when Penguin 3.0 refreshed last year, his rankings shot up everywhere (organic & local).
What have you found?