How a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger

• Does an Over-Optimization Penalty Exist?
• Has My Site Been Penalized by the Search Engines?
• Does Article Syndication Amount to a Duplicate Content Penalty?
• SEO Answers #13: Duplication, Google Backlinks and Datacenter Headaches

I was thinking about one of my sites on the same pattern as Patrick did. I am more than happy to be here to know what was wrong with him.I am going to analyze my those sites on the same pattern.
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That sound's perfect.Optimizing while penalized.

say if the site is sandboxed would the site automatically get back to the listing after using the methods you mentioned ?

I have to agree with this article wholeheartedly. I've had an experience with a penalty - we had to work to discover where the fault was, and in the process we made the site better overall, by just revising all the content. Ideally you keep tabs on your site to not have to experience a penalty in order to motivate you to make adjustments.

Thank you for the key points on what to do when struck by the hammer.

Would like to ask a question. My site has been penalized by google coz of paid post and links, which left my site with a PR 0, do you have any suggestions for that?

Yes, Agree with Rose. I have faced same kind of penalty with one of my client's website. He had also over optimized his home page (only) with lots of keywords. We first analyze whole site and find keywords that was over optimized, remove them and waited for next crawling once site with new content indexed we will get rankings back after 3 months. It will take time to get rankings back once site is penalized.

We thought, let first remove website from google webmaster tool link removal request. We were not sure about that. So we had remove keywords and added fresh content and wait for next crawling and we got ranking back.

I am eager to know if we go for URL removal request and make changes to site and then again submit link to google.Does it faster way to get out from penalization?

Also, What are the other penalties still exist? Like content duplication, same meta tags for all pages, bad neighborhood, etc. If you have any resources that provides information on "Google Penalties" than it would be great to share with SEO community.

Thanks in advance

What is the percentage of a given keyword you consider is stuffing the code?

Hello all, thank you for your comments! I am glad you appreciated the article.

Almer Viloria, your question was: "Would like to ask a question. My site has been penalized by google coz of paid post and links, which left my site with a PR 0, do you have any suggestions for that?"

My answer: Yes, the best way to go is to have all of the paid posts and links removed, if that has not happened already. Then once you are certain you are no longer infringing on Google's guidelines, go into your Google Webmaster Tools account and submit a request for reconsideration of your website; if you can't find the area to do that, then just do a quick search in the help area and you will find it.

Unfortunately there is no guarantee this will get you back into Google's graces and there is also no telling how long Google will take to even get to your request, however, it is an excellent first step. The next step is to build your site into a powerhouse of excellent information by creating a blog or getting more active in the one you have. This involves posting original, high quality content that provides potential readers with something of value - be it simply an enjoyable read or useful tips. The act of building your site's reputation through new quality content will help your odds of getting back into Google's graces considerably.

Dhvanil your questions were: #1) "I am eager to know if we go for URL removal request and make changes to site and then again submit link to google.Does it faster way to get out from penalization?"

#2) "Also, What are the other penalties still exist? Like content duplication, same meta tags for all pages, bad neighborhood, etc. If you have any resources that provides information on "Google Penalties" than it would be great to share with SEO community."

My answer to #1: No, although I can't say I have tried such an option, my opinion is that removing your URL will not speed anything up because Google will retain the historical profile of the domain - including its transgressions.

My answer to #2: Content duplication is not met with a penalty per se unless the site in question is 100% duplicate content at which point it might as well be penalized since Google will have little or no interest in it. There are a few exceptions to that such as news aggregate websites which are, by definition entirely duplicate-content-driven.

As for duplication of Metas and Titles... that is just going to harm you in terms of on-page optimization but it will not incur any sort of Google penalty unless, of course, the tags are full of SPAM but that should be a given to most novice SEOs.

Bad neighborhoods is an entirely different thing altogether because it really depends what you mean by that. If you have links predominantly from "bad neighborhoods" then it is quite possible Google will go beyond just negating the benefit of the links to actually penalizing your site because it will appear as though you are trying to game Google's trust algorithms. If you mean being hosted on a server where you share the ip address with some bad neighborhoods... well that is a little more difficult to prove but I expect it can be a problem.

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Thanks for your feedback!

Great case study and thanks for replying to the comments above.

I upgraded my home page and had great keyword ranking (1's and 2's) for about 6 key words. They suddenly plunged in 1 day, not completely off the charts but down to page 3 and 4 from page 1 position 1. I have an SEO company doing some work and I'm wondering if they could have caused it via directory and blog submissions??

As far as "onpage" stuff goes I think I'm following all of the google guidelines.

In Patrick's case how did he and you know definitively that the problem was key word stuffing?

thanks

All the points are true for SEO point of view, but the keyword stuffing is the real deal. Google algorithm is based on simple rules that your site is meant for viewer not for search engine. So use your keyword but in a manner that can make your site a content rich not keyword rich.

As far as getting links is concerned it is the recommendation that other sites adds their faith on you. It means that you must have something that makes them to add you.

Now-a-days, i see like the results are always moving up & down in google because its more real time now. And the top 10 pages has mixture of results, articles, homepages, videos, recent blog posts, tweets. So definitely, we can't avoid these fluctuations (in terms few ups & downs), i believe.

This is a very positive spin on a very bad situation for a website. However, I can see your point that by being penalised, it gave you the opportunity to look all his on page and off page elements and optimise his website.