Here is what he wrote:
If you have received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your website, do not worry. In the past, these messages are sent when we take action on a website as a whole. Yesterday was another step towards transparency and began sending messages when. Mistrust of some individual links to a website While it is possible to specify this activity spammy potential for the site, which also can be innocent reasons. For example, we may be wary of such actions chopped links that take on a website innocent. The innocent website you get the message, as we move towards more transparency, but not necessarily something you automatically have to worry.
If we place stringent measures, is probably a decrease in the queries that can be seen in the "search terms" Google Webmaster Tools feature to see, for example. As always, if you believe you have been affected by a manual action and spam your site no longer go against Google's Webmaster Guidelines, and progress. An application for reconsideration It will take some time for us to process the application, but you will receive a tracking confirmation email once we have processed.
My big problem here is that Google told us that these messages manual penalties and longer sentences are now. It is unclear in many ways for webmasters.
Here is the rest of the story I wrote this morning:
In July 2011, exactly one year ago Google began sending out notifications unnatural links to your site. Then in March this year, Google ramp these ads and received many webmasters.
It was pretty quiet on that front recently. Per day with only a few complaints in the forums on this news That changed yesterday, when tons of webmasters started receiving these messages.
We have discussions on many forums, but here are some selected topics on Google Webmaster Help, Google + and Webmaster World.
Almost all of them claim innocence, but the gist of it was this release and most likely that we will see a reduction in the classification of the week. This manual punishment probably 6 months or less, and requires a new request before window's worth to be removed. Please note, if you do nothing, the penalty is likely to recur.
