Google Penalty – How Do I Know if my Site has One?

So, you’ve worked hard – very hard – on making your site as optimized as possible. You’ve been scrupulously careful on your keyword research and on page optimization. You’ve been über careful on vetting a link buying agency to do your link building for you. You see good results – great results in fact – more traffic, more sales, life is looking great…

But suddenly, for no apparent reason, your rankings drop overnight along with 90% of your sales. You are no longer in the search engines’ index and have zero rank for all your important keywords. You no longer rank #1 for your domain name when searched. It’s clear that you have received a Google penalty.

Why My Site?

Part of the confusion over the Google penalty policy is not knowing what will cause a penalty. Another area of concern is what exactly Google’s various punishments involve  - and how they are applied. Knowing how to avoid penalties entirely by only using legitimate optimization techniques is the best policy for every legitimate website owner to put in place. As a rule, RankAbove recommends to stay within Googles Terms of Service (TOS). This is a clear boundary not to be crossed. In fact, severe abuses of the Google search engine policies and TOS can lead to outright banning of your website from Google’s index!

Because of that potentially devastating loss of revenue to your online business, it pays to use SEO best search engine practices – that is all we do at RankAbove – in fact we wrote the ‘SEO Best Practices’ book!

At RankAbove, we have pretty much experienced the whole gamut of Google’s penalties – and dealt with them efficiently. We have had received calls from collapsing businesses and turned them around by simply removing irrelevant and bad links created by a third party; further we have figured out on a rich media content site why specific sections of their site (which included hundreds and thousands of pages) were not being indexed  - let along ranking.

On each occasion - after careful consideration and analysis - our expert Google Penalty specialist team calmly and efficiently dealt with the matter in hand and then at the appropriate time sent a re-inclusion request to Google explaining the issue and how the issue was fixed. It has to be said, we are pretty proud of our track record. We follow Google’s every update – that’s our job – and working with you allows you to concentrate on growing your business.

Should you know you think you have a Google penalty – don’t hesitate to contact us either by phone or mail.

We look forward to getting your site  re-indexed and re-ranked and back in the big time.