The penalty is mostly a slap on the wrist (although it can be cudgel) to websites who offer a lot of good but also have some black hat or grey hat techniques that send up a red flag to Google. Some examples of techniques that might cause the problem include: * Excessive HTTP errors, such as endless 301 redirects * Too many affiliate links * Pages inaccessible to Google Robot (e.g. due to cookies needing to be set) * Hidden text * Excessive URL parameters * Bad or non-existent meta data, title, and/or page Description * Duplicate content problems * Keyword spamming
I do write some unique copy so that the majority of the site is unique, but I sure would not plan on that affiliate feed stuff ever ranking, google's already got 100's of versions of indexed already, they do not need another one.
You sound certain and very confident. Unless this came from Google's SPAM/face of SEO Matt Cutts, how are you so certain about such factors causing the -30 penalty?
-30 penalty means the highest your site could reach in SERP ranking is 4th page (31st place). I believe you are heavily emphasize on one targeted keyword which may result to this mild penalty. Obviously, there are no way you could reach first page or 2nd page of Google with -30 penalty. The same goes with -50 or -100 or -10 penalty. It is the highest place that you could achieve in SERP ranking.
You are absolutely right! but how we know that our site got penalized by Google. I mean what is the exact parameter to decide that we got 30 or 50 or 100 penalty by Google?
No one except those with @google.com email knows about it. We can guess that no matter what we do, our rank does not improve better than 30 position which means we might get -30 penalty. If the best we can get is 101th position, then we might get -100 penalty. This is truly based on testing with your best SEO score for that particular keyword.
i have a question that there could b any effect to site for do over promotion .? waiting for kind reply..
hi guys, guess same thing happened to my sites, my 3 sites got penalized by google... i basically run tv shows websites which provide streaming and download links. my 2 sites got -30 penalty and one got severe penalty... i used this tool to check.. http://tools.seomoves.org/penaltychecker/ please can anyone suggest me how to resolve this issue? how can i get good search results as my site's traffic dropped like an ice pack... thanks...
I guess next time you'll be more careful and not do stuff google doesn't like. Some people have to learn the hard way.
Well, certainly if you have a high bounce rate in a very short period. You will caught google's attention and might catch you in their sandbox. Something like, if you use blackhat method to boost your site in a sudden(short period), you will caught google's attention. Do something like, leave 20 backlink daily or etc etc.
hi guys, just want to confirm, is there any problem if i redirect my domain with the google penalty to the new domain name purchased??? will google still have problems with that?? i will purchase the new domain and transfer all data to the new domain, where the data formed is coming of original old dates. does google have problems with the old data on a new domain formed?? or should i change the dates also??
Thanks for sharing this nice information that Google have panalised many website if you do over promotion of your website......
You have told about excessive affiliate links but if we give nofollow to all affiliate links. Actually my website is premium theme review based and I use affiliate links to sent visitor to theme website. Any opinion about it?