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Google Penalty Checker

Is Your Website Suffering From A Google Penalty?

Due to the fact that some of my domains did not move up in the SERPS although I kept on generating new links I spent hours searching the internet for information on Google penalty.

You will find lots of people who wonder about the Google penalty and have no idea if their site has been penalized or not.

It took me forever to find a tool that actually tells you if your site got a Google penalty.

I added this great google penalty checker below. It worked great for me. All of my domains in question are penalized. Either with a -30, -60 or severe penalty.

Enter Your domain WITHOUT http:// in the box below and click "check"

The downside is that you will find no place that tells you WHY your domain got penalized. In most cases it is due to Blackhat Seo or having PAID links on your website.

You can find a list of the most common reasons below:

*  Domain Level Redundancy
This is most often caused by webmasters who 'clone' sites - point the DNS from many different domains into the same directory causing each domain to display the exact same site.

* Content Redundancy
Happens when you duplicate the same content across multiple pages, sites, or if someone copies your site/content.

* Multi-Domain
Once a valid strategy involving the purchase of many domains each addressing a separate keyword target, now a penalizable offense.

* Link seller
If you get flagged as a seller, your link juice goes away. When your links no longer pass PR, your links are worthless, even when used on your own site.

* Young Site
Referred to as the 'sandbox,' this is one of those Google penalties that is questioned in the forums. That's because you don't see this penalty unless you attempt to seo the site. Any effort to push hard on a site less than 6 months old will discover the disadvantages of youth. It's a real penalty.

* Intermittent Ranks
An issue created when large data sites fluxuate in and out of the index. Usually caused by structural and masking issues.

* Bad Neighborhood
If you appear to be supporting sites selling porn, gambling, Viagra...

* Spam
Do I even need to comment?

* Homeland Security
Some sites' businesses make them targets of our new security infrastructure - like the sellers of fake ids, chemicals, etc. You may not rank well if finding your service or product is perceived to create a threat to the government/security.

* Canonical Glitch
If  your site does not resolve to the www subdomain, it is vulnerable to a problem whereby your own content can be seen as redundant with itself. This is Google's fault and they have it more under control now, but it's still showing up in our client base, especially with large sites.

* Proxy Hack
When a 3rd party is able to hijack your Google ranks by using a proxy and some cloaking expertise, you end up being penalized by Google. Another one that is Google's fault for not being robust enough.

* Other Third Party Penalties
This includes both innocent and intentionally harmful tactics. You can be harmed when someone steals your content, or when one of your affiliates uses content off your site, or when a competitor intentionally places links to you from identified bad neighborhoods.

* Google Algorithm
Their algorithm is far from perfect and is in fact quite broken. So when it fails it's the equivalent of a penalty if you're on the receiving end.

* Masking Issues
When dynamic sites use mod rewrites to make pages appear static, many create ranking issues in the process.

The good thing is that out of 150+ domains I own, only 4 have a google penalty. I have to admit, that I have no idea why they got a penalty.

When you are searching for a solution, most websites will tell you that you will have to fix the issues on your site (well.. if you can figure out what actually causes the problem) and send a Google reinclusion request once you rectified everything.

Well... in case you have no idea what actually causes the problem it might be a good idea to just forget about the domain and move on.

I personally believe that 2 of my websites have an over optimisation penalty. I fixed it.  The others  were hacked some time ago. I thought I had removed all bad files, but when I double checked I noticed that some were still left.  So I reinstalled WordPress.

So let's see if I was right.

Google algorithm can add and remove some penalties automatically without sending a reinclusion request. I will wait for 2-3 month and see what will happen. I will u date this thread accordingly.