Tips to reveal Google Panda Penalties

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Tips to reveal Google Panda Penalties

There’s no doubt that Panda blew a lot of websites out of the water. From spammed articles, and keyword stuffed content to affiliate links buyers, many website owners found themselves on the wrong side of Panda’s algorithm updates.

As a result, many myths started swirling around and some of them are still in existence. Some of the myths about Panda that you shouldn’t waste your time on include:

  • There will be another Panda update soon –While there were various Panda updates in the past, the last one was rolled out in 2016. Google chose to integrate Panda as a core part of its search engine and has never published another update. In essence, there is most likely no Panda update that will come about anytime soon. You should therefore focus your energy on making your website Panda-friendly by following the already existing guidelines.
  • Duplicate content filter is part of Panda – Even though your website can face a Panda penalty for duplicate content. Panda isn’t solely aimed at duplicate content. In fact, a duplicate content filter and Panda are two separate and independent tools.
  • Too much UGC will be penalised – User-generated Content such as guest blog posts used to be and continues to be an important part of the web. So, do not be misled that publishing guest blog posts might attract Panda. All you have to do is to ensure that they’re of high-quality and actually possess information users would want to read.

 

The two ways that your site can be affected by Google penalties may either be Manual Action or Algorithm Penalty.

In most cases, detecting Manual Action penalties is much easier. This is because Google is nice and polite enough to send you a message to notify you about the penalty. Manual penalty notices are issued through Google Search Console.

On the other hand, algorithmic penalties are quite hard to detect because Google will not notify you about such penalties. You will have to find them by yourself, or better yet find a reliable SEO agency or consultant to do it for you.

These are 2 ways to determine whether your website may have suffered from a penalty:

  • Traffic & ranking drops – Your first clue will be a dramatic drop in traffic.If you have been impacted, your visibility will not improve and traffic will not return to your site until you fix the issue on your website that caused it. And as Panda is an algorithmic penalty, this means that even once you’ve resolved the underlying issue(s), you’ll have to wait for the algorithm to be run again for the penalty to be lifted to get your rankings back, which could be several months. Head into your Google Analytics and take a look at your Google traffic and rankings. If you notice a massive sudden drop in traffic on the upwards of 75%, this might be an indication that your site has been subjected to a Panda penalty. You should however, keep in mind that other things such as the rise of competitors, manual penalties and normal seasonal drop in consumer interest might also cause such drops.
  • Drop in phone calls & leads – If you’ve noticed a severe drop in email leads or phone calls in a short time-frame then that may also be a result of a penalty. Most websites generate a large portion of their total traffic through search engines such as a Google. If you’ve noticed a significant decrease in leads and calls, then you may have been impacted.

If either of the top two points applies to your situation, then apply the following steps to confirm whether it was Panda:

  • Identify – Check your website stats and jot down all major dates where you’ve noticed a significant decline in calls, leads or organic traffic.
  • Cross-reference – Google algorithm forecasting tools such as MozCast and Dejan SEO’s Algoroo may show big spikes in major SERP changes. Cross-reference this data with your own traffic stats to see whether they align. Additionally, Moz’s Algorithm Change History and Search Engine Land’s algorithm update page are also great resources to check whether a new update has rolled out.

Read more The basical knowledges of Google Panda Algorithm

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How to realize your site has been hit by Google Penguin Penalties

Regardless of what triggered the penalty, and whether it’s for a personal site or a client’s, you need to be able to diagnose what caused it and fix it. In most cases, you can get almost all of your search traffic back in the short-term.

If you’re ready to get rid of any penalties by Google Penguin Algorithm holding back your organic search traffic or you’d just like to prepare for future problems, let’s get started.

How Can I Discover if I have been penalized By Google Penguin Algorithm

If Google determines that your site contains spam backlinks, one of these actions may apply to your site. Many SEO’s simply call this a punishment because it reduces Google’s ranking and leads to data loss.

For example, in 2013 Google punished Rap Genius (now Genius) for participating in a link scheme. We followed your ranking and found that a dozen keywords we followed had lost 4 to 6 pages on Google:

how to recover from Google Penguin Algorithm

This was a widely publicized Google penalty that paid much attention to Google Penguin and Rap Genius.

Since then, much has changed how Google punishes a website because of the Google Penguin algorithm update. For example, Google has (in the past) penalized a complete website.

As of 2016, Google announced that the penalties would be more precise. Gary Illyes of Google said that Google Penguin is much “nicer” because:

  • Now it updates in real time.
  • Ignore spam instead of using it as a classification factor.
  • grainy and will not punish entire sites as often

If Google Penguin Algorithm penalizes your website then your website rank will get down and as result website traffic will also get a drop.

Links will play a role in SEO despite the changes brought about by Google’s Penguin 4.0 update, so websites should continue to include them in SEO ranking efforts. But as any search ranking effort, link building cannot be the only strategy because numerous links without any online noise is likely to raise doubts with Google crawlers.

If you have made efforts to build online buzz about your website and have earned links organically through different strategies, you’re likely to get rewarded by the search engine with a higher rank.

Links continue to remain a strong part of SEO, but it cannot be followed in a sequestered manner, which is separate from other strategies. Under the new update, devalued websites can actually rebuild their ranking by simply building high-quality links.

Websites affected by the Penguin update can make changes to recover quickly:

  • Avoid over optimising anchor texts and websites in general, so they look more natural for Google bots.
  • Remove low-quality links to your website to ensure Penguin updates don’t penalise you.
  • Add high-quality links from reputed source sites.
  • Create a mobile-friendly interface without popups to avoid penalties from Google.
  • Build organic links through different online marketing strategies.
  • Build high-value content to ensure better inbound links to your website.

The Penguin 4.0 update is designed to eliminate poor link building efforts by focussing on organic strategies. Websites will want to consider making these changes quickly in order to stay relevant and high up in search rankings.

Read more How Does Google Penguin Algorithm Work

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