When your website doesn’t meet Google’s quality standards and violates the search engine’s norms, it invites a penalty. Searchmetrics contributor Sarah Presch has shared some useful tips to help you win a Google penalty shoot-out. She says, “There are a number of different causes, some of which can be purely accidental, to those more severe where people are going out of their way to manipulate search results. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the most common causes our team have seen, and how to fix them. Keyword Stuffing and Hidden Text Back in the early days of SEO,... [...]

Google penalties are strikes against individual websites that demote certain ranking factors in Google’s search algorithm. Vertical Leap SEO specialist Marie Turner has published a comprehensive article explaining how to remove a Google Penalty. She says, “To remove a Google penalty from your website, you have to fix the issues flagged up and then show Google that everything is resolved before your penalty will be lifted. So, the typical process for removing a manual action penalty involves three key steps: Identify & fix all relevant issues Send a reconsideration request to Google Put... [...]

Google continues to update its algorithms for the past few years. These algorithm updates are aimed at giving users the best possible answers to their search queries and provide good user experience (UX). Google penalizes the websites that violate Google’s guidelines. Rank Ranger contributor Liraz Postan has shared an article on Google Penalty and how to recover if you have received a penalty. Postan says, “If you know anything about Google as a search engine, you know that it’s anything but static. Over the years, Google has consistently made changes to its platform to give users... [...]

The latest issue of ‘Search Engine Roundtable’ newsletter has been released. The featured article is titled “Overstock.com’s Google Penalty Hurt Sales By Only 5%”. [Newsletter] […]  [...]

Rosalind says, “Webmasters who spent their time gaming search engine results with low-quality content farms and scraper sites have been hit hard since Google’s latest algorithm change last week.” [Rosalind Gardner’s Blog] […]  [...]

The latest issue of ‘Search Engine Roundtable’ newsletter has been released. The featured article is titled “Google Penalizes Forbes For Selling Links, Again”. [Newsletter] […]  [...]

The latest issue of ‘Search Engine Roundtable’ newsletter has been released. The featured article is titled “Google Penalty Removals Happen Two Ways: Manually & Algorithmically”. [Newsletter] […]  [...]