Google Penalty Checklist and Penalty Checker

Google Penalty Checklist

Some content that point out some of the mistakes through which a website suffers from a Google penalty, They are:

• Linking to banned sites

Run a test on all outbound links from your site to see if you are linking to any sites which have themselves been Google banned.

• Linking to bad neighborhoods

Check you are not linking to any bad neighborhoods, link farms or doorway pages. Bad neighborhoods include spam sites and doorway pages, whilst link farms are just pages of links to other sites, with no original or useful content.

Google Penalty Advice

Google Penalty

To check for Google penalties with any degree of certainty can be difficult. For example, if your website experiences a sudden reduction in ranking for its main keyword terms it can be caused solely by a Google algorithm change or search results (SERP) update.

With any algorithm change or Google SERP update, there are always winners and losers, and when a sudden drop in rankings is experienced Google penalties are often incorrectly blamed.

If you suspect a Google penalty, it first makes sense to check whether any Google algorithm changes have been made which could be the cause of the problem