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How do you know when Google assigns a penalty

Discussion in 'Google' started by oseymour, Jan 25, 2007.

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    Someone asked me this question today and I didn't really have any concrete evidence to back myself up.

    I want to know how DP members determine when a site has a penalty...I'm not talking about a small duplicate content filter.

    I'm talking about serious penalties. Spam, linking to bad neighbourhoods etc.
     
    oseymour, Jan 25, 2007 IP
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    CountryBoy Prominent Member

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    Get the site verified in google webmaster tools. If there is a penalty in effect, they will tell you in there.

    You are on the right track though by separating filters and penalties. However if you are carrying out any sort of black or grey hat SEO then you just have to be prepared to accept the death of the site.
     
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    Ah... this tools is same as you would use in google site:domain ;)
     
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    Where do they tell you in there ?
     
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    I think I was linking to two sites that had penalties...I quickly removed their links.

    Last week one of them had a PR of 5 today the Pr is 0....the other site was justfreestuff.com, they are losing index pages and their PR is also down to 0. My site also fell from number 1 to number 121 for my keyword.
     
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  7. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    An established site with 0 toolbar pagerank is a telltale sign of a serious penalty..

    being dropped entirely from the serps is another sign.
     
    oseymour, Jan 25, 2007 IP
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    Old Welsh Guy knows his stuff... but this one, hmm...

    Would you mind elabrating on this a bit? How and where did you find this info on the webmaster tools? Please tell more :)

    ps: Bans are easy of course, but we're talking a penalty here.
     
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    dont they send you an email???
     
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    Oseymour, thanks for bringing this up,
    and CountryBoy - thanks for the link!

    I have 2 sites that are very well indexed &
    not new but still, both stay on PR 0.
    So I just checked both and they do not
    appear to be penalized whatsoever.
    No idea how come or what might be up.
     
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    I think my site has a penalty because I found out I was linking to 2 shady sites that suddenly lost their Toolbar PR and rankings, you can't even find them if you search by name
     
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    A Sudden steep drop in Google organic traffic may be an indication
     
    sarathy, Jan 25, 2007 IP