There are no easy ways to find out any SEO penalty imposed to our website or blog. Of course, there are plenty of ways that can lead us to penalty. From simple link exchanges also can lead to penalty. As long as, we follow google webmaster rules, we are on safe side. Considering almost 80% search engine market conquered by Google, getting penalty from them simply takes away our money from the table. So, it is extremely important not to go against the Google TOS and continue to add more quality contents and backlinks to bring our blog or website to next level. Here is a list of tools that can help you to run Google penalty check.
There are plenty of ways and tools to detect SEO penalty to a website or blog. However, I follow below three sites to detect any penalty issues:
1. Content duplicate
- Check using Copyspace on any copied contents from web used. Sometimes, high authority sites that copied our contents can lead us to content thief. Try using Google parameter handling tools to deal with duplicate contents.
2. Bad neighborhood Links From Your Blog or Website
- Check if there are any sites that you have mistakenly link from your blog either from paid links or blogroll. Sometimes, these sites are marked as bad neighborhood sites in Google and giving dofollow links can lead to penalty from Google. Check if any of your site links are linking to bad neighborhood sites.
3. Paid Links With Dofollow
- Usually, Google unable to detect paid links that sold directly. Let’s say a buyer contacts you directly and request for a link to buy from your site. Only if the buyer has tons of paid links or some of your competitor complaints about paid links with passing page rank value or dofollow to Google, they may detect it. Sometimes, writing paid post with dofollow link to advertisers can lead to penalty too. Google allow us to sell links on our blog or website, only they ask us to add rel=”nofollow” attribute to paid links from blogroll, sidebar or paid posts.
4. Excessive link Exchanges
- Exchange links with friends and family members is to keep close contact. But, excessive link exchanges can lead to penalty too. Long list of blogroll or friends and family can lead to penalty.
5. SEO Penalty Check
- This site helps me to check any URL on SEO penalty points. However, there are no detailed information given here. It is just guidance for us to dig further on penalties on any website or blog.
6. Google Banned Check
- There are several tools provided online for free to check our site gets banned or not from google. For example: iWebTool, Selfseo, etc. These are useful applications for Google penalty checker on domain level.
If your blog is under Google penalty, try to identify the cause of your penalty. If you couldn’t find, then try to post it on Google Webmaster Help Forum with your link and problem. There are many experts in this field will help you out and if you are lucky, some famous Google staff will reply too. Then, request for reconsideration from google webmaster tool.
Speaking of categories, you know your categetoires roll on your blog runs off past the theme on the bottom and looks a little messed up, same for your recent entries where they run into the “red image” and you can’t read them, it hurts the cosmetic aspect of the blog a little.
I just removed some of the categories and it is not too obvious now. As for recent posts, the template color is such and I am not good in editing css file. Will be looking for better template soon as my target reached (1kUV/day)
Really good article and I have used some of these tools myself and will test some of the other ones. You forgot to mention about “Disclosure Policies” just having one can hurt your blog big time, Google scans for words like Disclosure, and having one generated by the “DisclosurePolicy.ORG” can creates a template policy that is easy for Google to scan for and devalue your blog if you have one.
Yet as bloggers, there are still many paid blogging programs that pay for “dofollow” links and require disclosure policies so its a matter of weighing PageRank vs Earning money, and which one is worth more?
I have never face “Disclosure Policies” issue before. But, there are some paid post with dofollow link gets away from google penalty. As far as I know, PPP is blacklisted and those who write paid post with dofollow from PPP will definitely get penalty.
I like the SEOPenalty tool and checked my site immediately. I thought I overdo some of my SEO stuff but luckily the result shows I did not.
Great! I was scared to check my site too but luckily there are no penalty. I noticed some of my friends site have VERY VERY HIGH penalty rate.