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Reasons why your website could be penalized or banned by google
Banned websites will not rank for their own keywords, but they will not be indexed at all. So if your site is out of index then your website is banned. Reasons why your website could be penalized or banned by google? Cloaking – It is bad, don’t do it. Cloaking is basically when a reader see some other page and search engines see another thing. Duplicate Content – Duplicate content on multiple pages. Keyword Stuffing – When you stuff insane amount of keywords on your pages. Buying Links – Buying links from irrelevant sites will get you in trouble. Linking to Bad Sites – Any site that is not related to your niche is a bad site. Hidden Text / Links – Sometimes free theme designers do this. Theyadd links to the site and make it no display, … Read entire article »
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Reason of Google penalty and how to find it
heck the following in your Google webmaster tools: Dashboard — Overview. If the Googlebot has problems accessing your home page, it will return a message like the following: “Googlebot cannot access your home page because it is blocked by robots.txt.” In this case, you need to remove the robots.txt in your web server root directory and submit a re-consideration request to Google. You can read more about submitting reconsideration requests here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843 Also, you should go to your home page and view the source. You should NOT see this code: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”> This code tells Google not to index your home page, and, at the same time, not to follow the links in your navigation menu. If you see this, then remove it and submit a reconsideration request. b. If the above test turns … Read entire article »
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Understanding algorithm-based and manually-driven Google penalties
In no way should the statements in this article be considered to beaffiliated with Google or official statements from them. But as far as I know, there are two types of obvious penalties: algorithm-based and manually-driven. Before we can start troubleshooting, you must understand these types of penalties. Algorithm-based penalties result from your website being “filtered” by Google’s algorithm due to some linking and onsite issues. Different types of filtering exist; the most common involve the duplicate content filters. Algorithm-based penalties could result from your site sending a poor relevance signal to search engines. It means that your site is not telling them that a certain page on your site is relevant to a certain query. Other algorithm-based penalties involve minor infractions in the areas of hidden text, cloaked text, nearly hidden text and … Read entire article »
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How to Handle a Google Penalty
Last week, I interviewed the head of Google’s spam team, Matt Cutts, about a lot of different issues. One of the most intriguing towebmasters appears to have been the discussion in the 2nd video (around 6:00) where we go into a chat about the real estate industry online, where thousands of websites have recently lost rankings due to participation in egregious manipulation through reciprocal link campaigns. During the chat, I referred to this thread at RealEstateWebmasters(14 pages and 132 replies) discussing the “shot across the bow” that Matt’s team fired in mid-May. Obviously, that site has long recommended link exchanges as a way to get ranks, and honestly, it’s hard to find fault with their advice since until just recently, the tactics were very effective. Here’s how it usually works in the real estate website … Read entire article »
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10 Ways to Diagnose a Google Penalty
An interesting thread on WebmasterWorld forums discusses ways to diagnose a possible Google penalty. If you suspect your site / URL is being filtered out / penalized (e.g. you have lost some Google rankings), try doing the following: Dig your internal traffic analytics for traffic drops or bad trends; Perform [site:yoursite.com] search in Google to see if Google reports same number of indexed URLs; Check if Google Webmaster Tools report any problems; Take a look if Google toolbar PR has changed (graybar PR mightbe a signal of penalty); Check your site ranking for a “domain-name” search (without theTLD). If such a query puts you in the fifties, it’s almost (!) guaranteed to be a penalty. Check if Google has blacklisted your site as unsafe for browsing (type http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=mysite.com with your domain at the end). Check the source code for any injected links … Read entire article »
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