Google Penalty Recovery
Do you think your website’s been penalized by Google? We can help.
Our UK digital agency are experts at identifying and solving Google penalties.
If you think you have been peanalized by Google, we can help.
We’ve helped dozens of websites successfully recover from a Google penalty.
Google’s algorithm is constantly changing, and the latest algorithm update is starting to take effect, with many website owners experiencing a notable drop in traffic and enquiries from websites.
We can help assess your website to figure out exactly what affected you and why.
Examples of major algorithm updates
A prime example of a major algorithm was Penguin, which was released in April 2012. This update specifically targets backlinks to websites. Links from poor-quality websites, link farms or irrelevant websites are seen as “webspam”. Websites linking from them were penalized.
Backlinks have been an important part of Google’s algorithm, and it has now evolved to prevent unethical techniques from gaining ranking advantages. There have been many more similar, smaller updates, such as Penguin 2.0.
More recently, in March 2019 there was a broad core algorithm update that affected a large number of websites. This update was general, in attempts to strengthen the overall quality of search.
Identifying the penalty
We will identify exactly why your site was issued with a penalty in the first place and devise a solution.
Work on resolving the issue
After identifying why Google issued the penalty, we will use white-hat methods to get your site back on track.
Google guidelines
We will make sure your site remains following Google guidelines to prevent any future penalties.
I think my website has been affected. What can I do?
Being affected by a Google penalty isn’t the end of the world.
Websites can recover from algorithm updates. There are a number of steps that we can do to help you recover:
- Collate and analyse backlinks – identify the links that are hurting your website
- Put an action plan in place to request backlink removal, and follow up to check that the links have gone
- Ensure that future links are from relevant, trusted and good-quality sources. A well thought-out content marketing strategy can help attract natural back linking. White papers, blog articles and infographics create excellent sharing and linking opportunities
- Performing an SEO content audit of your website to identify the pages that have duplicated and thin content, which do not add any value
- Ensuring that your website is E-A-T compliant, therefore it is fully matching the search intent of the users
Real-time fluctuations
This neat widget by SEMrush allows you to check SERP volatility in real-time, so you can check back here if you suspect there may be an algorithm update.
It is important to note that sometimes these fluctuations are normal, and occur as part of Google’s ongoing attempt to stabilize its search engine.