The most frustrating aspect of SEO is working your tail off for results and never getting them because your site has fallen to a google penalty. Or even worse, having great success, growing accustomed to your site bringing in great traffic from google on a daily basis only to find out one day it is all gone. Many people believe there is a sandbox filter on google. I thought so as well. I now truly believe there is no sandbox filter. I have fallen victim to pretty much every possible penalty there is and the great thing about google is once you correct the issue that caused the penalty, it is usually removed within a week the next time google spiders your site. I have found the very smallest things can trigger a google penalty. You may have heard the penalty terms -950, -30, -50, over optimization penalty etc. These are just names that people have come up with. There are many penalties and many factors google takes into place when deciding to apply a filter to your site ranking. The most important thing to keep in mind is that someone working at google did not manually decide to punish your site, googles algorithm found something it does not like. I have learned through trial and error, research, trial and error and even more trial and error what causes google to apply these filters. I am not claiming I can find every cause for a google penalty, but so far I have been able to come out of googles penalty for sites I have owned for years and sites I have owned for a few weeks. If you're interested in a quote from me send me the following information: Website: Why you believe your site is penalized: how long its been penalized: Any changes you may have made to your site before the penalty kicked in: which pages are penalized (entire site, homepage, inner pages etc):
Brinked is the guy to ask for advice, should you have some mystery problem affecting your SERPs in Google. Thanks for the help.