How to Tell If You Got a Google Penalty
- 1). Open your Internet browser and open a Google search webpage. Enter "site:*your domain*" (without quotes), replacing the material within the asterisks with the URL of your website. If this search produces no returns, Google may be penalizing your website.
- 2). Enter your business name into a Google search to see if it produces links to your website. If your search produces no links to your website, you may be experiencing a Google penalty.
- 3). Copy a few sentences from a webpage on your website that previously had high ranking and Google visibility. Paste the sentences into a Google search box and hit "Enter." If your website does not appear as the top return, Google may be penalizing your website.
- 4). Visit a website with a free page-rank checking tool (see Resources) to check the page rank of your website. Enter your URL in the field in the checking tool and view the results. If you previously had page rank on your website and now your website shows an "N/A" or a "0," your website may have a Google penalty.
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