Google Penalty

Google Penalty Compliance, Recovery, Removal: Help for Banned or Penalized Websites on Google

What is a Google Penalty? A Google penalty arises out of over-optimization on your website, either intentionally, or unintentionally. A Google penalty is when your website is no longer listed, indexed, cached in Google search engine results or your rank drops suddenly from an algorythm change. When you get a Google penalty, then your target audience cannot find your website organically. It makes you invisible in Google searches. In a nutshell, Google is banning your business website for non compliance, often times called "black hat SEO", which deceives Google into boosting keyword rankings via manipulation and sneaky non compliant SEO.

SEO Consulting or Google penalty management can help diagnose, remove or recover a Google penalty. Often times, a seasoned SEO (with 8-10 years experience) can diagnose the issue. Other times, there could be multiple causes, and difficult problems which can take months. How long will the penalty last? Depends on the severity of the "crime". Could be as little as 48 hours. Or, the worst case scenerio, your website can get banned for life! (At that point no one can help you.) A 6 month Google penalty is common for hacking incidents. In order to get re-indexed, the changes must be implemented within the 6 months. There are also longer term Google penalties. And there are short term penalties which can be corrected within a week. The "sandbox" effect is a penalty for new websites under 6 months in age. This Google sandbox penalty can also be applied to older websites or domains with non-compliance.

Common Google penalties include -10, -30, -100 penalties which push your website to the "back of the line". What causes a Google penalty? Link schemes, canonical glitch, hidden links, keyword stuffing, over optimization, hacked files, domain issues, hosting issues, validation. Algorythm updates create penalties and remove penalties. With Google updated it's algorythm almost daily, your business needs to ensure you never will get a Google penalty. If your site has a penalty, your SEO consultant can remove the Google penalty so your site ranks again. Please contact us for emergency Google penalty consulting. We help reverse the penalty so your site can rank again with the least amount of wait time possible.

Can you contact Google directly? Yes. There are several ways for an SEO consultant to contact Google for a re-inclusion of the website or to report a problem with your website. But often times a penalty will be removed via an experienced SEO by researching the case and practicing "search compliance".