Google Penalty? Diagnose & Fix Your Issues

[djbaxter]

Hit With a Google Penalty? Here's How to Quickly Diagnose & Fix Your Issues
By Andrea Francis, blog.hubspot.com
September 1, 2015

Every marketer has a story about getting penalised by Google. Evidence suggests that though many websites have been penalised (not just by the big updates, but also by one of the thousands of tiny little manual Google updates), the average marketer or webmaster hasn’t noticed. According to Kissmetrics, only 5% of penalised websites are submitting a reconsideration request every month to recover their rankings.

Since we are all reliant on search engines for traffic, we have to stay in the know about the latest updates -- and make changes if we're affected. Not only is it good common sense to keep abreast of the updates, but it can give you the competitive advantage if you can recover faster than others. Double win!

Thankfully, there are plenty of free tools out there to help even the busiest marketer watch out for these dreaded silent traffic killers. Keep on reading to learn what you need to do to ensure your SEO stays agile and ahead-of-the-game at all times.

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[harold15]

Some of my sites had been penalized, I filled reconsideration requests for all of them, and I never got a response that was satisfactory to me. It might take up to three months to recover from a penalty depending on the severity of the penalty involved. In some cases, it may take much longer than that.

 

[djbaxter]

It may also depend on the reason for the penalty and what you do in response.


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[harold15]

It may also depend on the reason for the penalty and what you do in response.


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I had to wait until the recovery takes place. One of the things they always say is that their webspam team has checked the website involved, and they've found nothing which is against their guidelines. And they conclude that there may well be other reasons your site may get affected. That was all.

 

[djbaxter]

Yes. They don't divulge up lot.

Was yours one of the algorithmic penalties or a manual penalty?


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[harold15]

Algorithmic penalties.

 

[djbaxter]

Yeah that's tougher because even if you do everything right you have to wait for the next update.


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[harold15]

You are right. It can be real frustrating to find yourself in such situation, especially a website that you've been working on for quite some time.