How Do You Identify the Cause of a Penalty?

You can use Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and Google Penalty checker tool to identify the cause of your penalty.

Yes, there is a way to recover from your rankings:
1. Focus at finding all your backlinks :
Go and start the Google Webmaster Tools, then download all the backlinks of your website that is been recognized by Google.
Click on the “Search Traffic” and select the links to your site.
Click on “More” to see all the links. To explore the backlinks, click on “Download latest links”
2. Identify the backlinks using tools like Monitor Backlinks.
3. When you are seeing that a certain link is hurting your Google rankings, then try to remove it.
4. Aim at improving the quality of the content.
 
For most online businesses, search engine traffic is very important, but achieving high rankings in Google is not as easy as it used to be. Therefore, many SEOs and marketers are pushing the link-building process to the limit. As a result, many websites are being penalized for violating Google’s guidelines.

According to Matt Cutts, over 400,000 manual actions are being initiated every month by Google. That’s not all. Numerous other websites are being penalized by algorithmic updates such as Penguin and Panda. What’s interesting is that only about 20,000 webmasters are submitting a reconsideration request every month. So, this means that only 5% of the websites that have been penalized are trying to recover their rankings.

Do you own a website that has received a manual or algorithmic penalty? Don’t throw in the towel just yet because I’m going to show you how to recover your lost rankings and traffic.
 
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