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.
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Thank you for these wonderful tips.
You’re welcome. Hope you enjoy the checklist.
Yes, this is good step…
thanks Sis….
and I will try it……
Good luck and hope there are no penalty for you.
i have experienced the number 4.
excessive link exchange.
dramatically, my PR drop from 2 become N/A
shoo
Sorry to hear that. Don’t worry about it as you will soon get back your PR once you control your outgoing links via link exchanges.
i never know about google penalty before.but when i read your article.i know..thank you
Glad you know it now. Hope you don’t go against those TOS of Google.
Thanks for this step.It is surely useful to avoid Google penalty.
Yes, it is Dana. At least, we able to check the penalty on our own instead of asking some SEO to check for us.
Wow, I never knew some of these tools were existed, such as bad neighborhood. Thanks for the info.
You’re welcome. I’m sure you will be able to remove those questionable links from your site easily with this tool.
I already removed 2 links. Again thanks for the info.
Great! It is easy if we know where is the real bad sites we are linking to.
My goodness… My google penalty is maxed! Thanks for this very useful info. There is a lot of spring cleaning to do.
Good that you have noticed it. Wish you all the best in recovering from this penalties.
Thanks for reminding me all these points. In the course of time I was forgetting them. All points in one place…that’s useful also.Also thanks for the nice tools.
Thanks
TC
You’re welcome Sourav. I always find it hard to find tools to check penalties. It is good to compile it in one place.
Great tips. Thanks for sharing!
You’re always welcome.