How to Revoke a Google Penalized website?

What happens when your website experience a sudden change in algorithm? Does your ranking drops or traffic is minimized? According to Google, more than 4 thousand spam actions are taken every month. To ensure you are in the safe zone, always follow Webmaster Guideline. Below is everything you need to know about how to remove a Google Penalty!

Know Your Penalty

There are two types of Google Penalties, Manual Penalty and Algorithm Penalty. The difference is Manual Penalty comes with a message on Google Webmaster Tools while Algorithm Penalty direct affects your rank and traffic without notifying you at first place.

Whenever you receive a message from Google Webmaster Tools account, check for any sample links to search engine ranking. Google can provide you with two or more samples so you can see which links are violating Google Guidelines. In case your ranking have dropped without due notice, your website has experienced algorithm change.

In order to solve the mystery, you need to go back to the time when your ranking dropped (the day when algorithm update was first introduced!).

To get your ranking back, you need to identify bad backlinks affecting your ranking. You can use tools such as Monitor Backlinks to help you out!

Different Types of Bad Backlinks Leading to Penalty

There was a time when every backlink was considered a good one. Unfortunately, that was long ago! Nowadays every backlink have certain value and they should be related to your website. Here some examples of backlinks which means trouble!

• Gambling websites
• Links from Penalized Websites
• Not related to your website
• Links originating from Blog Networks
• Backlinks containing over optimized anchor text
• Links from duplicate content
• Spam Blog comments and Forum Signatures
• Adult Content Website

Identify Backlinks Responsible for Your Troubles

Log in to Monitor Backlinks account. Connect your domain with Google Analytics and review your website links. From ‘Backlinks Page’, you can view backlinks considered by Google. These are Good one and they diverse your attention. Remember, Monitor Backlinks will never show all the links passing PageRank. This influences your Search Ranking. You can search for bad links in following ways!

• Search for links with zero Social Media Engagement
• Search for links originating from Blog Networks
• Confirm Backlinks with Low PageRank
• Search for Over Optimized Anchor Text
• Search for Spam TLDs

How to tag Backlinks

How to sort out bad links and determine which can affect your ranking can be time consuming. But once you find such links. You can tag bad links and identify afterwards. To do this, select the setting button, add tag and submit. Do the same with all backlinks you want to get rid of!

How to Remove Bad Links

After Confirming and tagging low quality links, it`s time to get rid of them. Here are some easy methods to do so!

1. Link Removal Request

Before you submit a disavow report, try removing the bad backlinks. You will need to contact webmasters with a straight email request regarding to their links. Include every important detail so webmasters can easily identify your URL and backlinks. You need a friendly approach with your email. Prove you are the owner of website when requesting a link removal. Wait for 7 days after submitting your request. Webmasters can charge for link removals so better prepare for it. Never anyone a dime as you can disavow the links later.

2. Create Disavow Reporting using Monitor Backlinks

In order to export a disavow report with bad links, choose the links you want removed and click “With Selected: and “Export Disavow”. Monitor Backlinks will now download the disavow report so you can submit it to Google Webmaster Tools for recovering your search stats. Take cautions while using the disavow tool because once you remove a link, you can`t recover it!  Always try to remove the links by yourself and leave the disavow tool as a last resort!