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Top reasons for Google Penalty

January 18th, 2012 | 7 Comments

Backlinks Large parts of the SEO industry still focus on link building or getting links to improve search engine visibility especially on Google. There is nothing wrong with that. Of course there are limits. There are now so many pitfalls to link building that you have to be very exact when it comes to following the Google Webmaster Guidelines. 5000 links for $19 – dubious offers from spam emails offering you 5000 links for $19 are too good to be true. They lead almost directly to a penalty. Paid links on high PR sites – while you can get away with paid links in many cases, it’s quite easy to get noticed when you buy links on so-called high PR sites where the toolbar PageRank is 6 and above. There are only a … Read entire article »

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Google penalizes duplicate content

Duplicate content Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin. Examples of non-malicious duplicate content could include: Discussion forums that can generate both regular and stripped-down pages targeted at mobile devices Store items shown or linked via multiple distinct URLs Printer-only versions of web pages If your site contains multiple pages with largely identical content, there are a number of ways you can indicate your preferred URL to Google. (This is called “canonicalization”.) More information about canonicalization. However, in some cases, content is deliberately duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or win more … Read entire article »

Search engine SPAM detector

What does this tool do? This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam. If you don’t know what “search engine spamming” means or if you want to know how this tool works, you can read the Spam detector FAQ. What type of tricks does it find? The tool tries to detect three main methods: keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text. Any trick based on Javascript or on CSS positioning/layering will not be detected (for now). Search engine spam detection is very difficult to accomplish and this tool can’t recognize all the existing tricks/methods; it isn’t perfect and it sometimes fails. Why … Read entire article »

Google Banned Checker

This tool will analyze your domain with Google search to detect if the domain is banned, Just test for Total penalty that mean your site has been totally banned. Check domain: http://   (eg. www.iwebtool.com) function validate(theform) { if (theform.domain.value == "") { alert("Please provide a domain name"); return false; } return true; } Powered by iWEBTOOL … Read entire article »

4 Google Penalty Flags : Have You Been Penalized by Google

Google is believed to apply a variety of filters to sites that fail to follow their TOS. More often than not, if you correct all errors, you will be forgiven and filters will be removed (even with no reconsideration request required). The major problem is, webmasters might be completely unaware of the fact the site is filtered or under penalty. They might be unaware of (internal) duplicate content problem, notorious bad neighborhood problems or “over-optimization” issues. The possible issues might be numerous and they can be totally invisible even to an SEO-savvy person. So here are a few flags that might mean your site is forced to have lower rankings than it deserves due to the penalty … Read entire article »

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