Monday, March 19, 2012

Understanding The Google Penalties

In simple words Google Penalties are the punishments for those websites which are not following Quality Guidelines told by Google and are involved in wrong activities like keyword stuffing, Cloaking, Hidden Text, Duplicate content, Malware etc. When a site is Penalized its Ranking drops badly in Search Engine and it also loses most of its traffic coming from Google Search.  We can say that Google Penalties are the worst nightmares for Webmasters.


Following are different types of Google Penalties.

1 Algorithm Penalty
2 Manual Penalty

Following are types of Manual Google Penalties:

-30 Penalty
-50 Penalty
-90 Penalty
Complete Exclusion

How to stay away from these Google Penalties?

Don't do keyword stuffing.
Don't use hidden text.
Don't use duplicate content.
Be careful about getting links.
Don't put too much ads above the fold.

What to do if you are already Penalized by the Google?

find out the reason why you are Penalized by the Google and then submit a reconsideration request to Google using this link. tell Google all the details and don't hide anything from them. also tell them if you was really doing something wrong.  Wait for a few days and they will respond you in Google Webmasters tools.