Everybody makes mistakes, after all we are humans. But cyber mistakes often leads to most disastrous results. Although your mistake is very small born of innocence and filled with frankness, search engine spiders has nothing to do with it. They treat a mistake as a mistake and can temporarily penalize you with a reason of fact that you followed a false step to rank high in search engines.
Google Penalty
Now the first step to make sure that you don’t get penalized in Google is to read Google Webmaster Guidelines, understand them, and follow them. It’s as simple as that. This strategy worked for most of the webmasters and I’m sure it will work for you too.
What if you are penalized for unforced errors?
As I already told you that, crawlers don’t know if the error is forced or unforced, they just go on and drop your search engine rankings if they find your blog violates Google Webmaster Guidelines. People often scratch their heads to track the unforced errors for which their blog was dropped out of search engine rankings. In fact its really tough to track those type of problems.
Few extra precautions would always help you prevent this type of head-ache. All you need to do is to pay an extra bit of attention towards your blog or website. Do track your out going link from your blog and incoming links to your blog. Make sure that all the links are from good Neighborhood. Track your comments for spam and don’t often accept comments from strangers with suspicious URL’S .
Avoiding duplicate content always helps. However, if you do post few lines taken from a blog or a website as a reference to your current blog post, don’t hesitate to place credits link to the blog or website from which the content is taken from. Always make sure that you text color always dominate your background color. If you don’t take good care of it, then I’m afraid Google may penalize you Under hidden text Penalty.
So that’s all I’ve got for now. Hope you liked this article!! Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
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That was a useful Post.But penalized webmasters can always correct the issue and ask google to reassess their site via Google Webmasters.
Google can be mean sometimes and penalize you for something stupid, but they can also rectify their mistake. I think if you follow the normal rules then all will be ok. I think this post is somewhat for beginners.
Google also blocked my site at one stage as they said it had a virus, after sorting it out they corrected it.
Hey Dude! Nice work . But it would have helped my diagnose the problem as to what made me lose my PR from 1 to 0
I always wrote unique content! Except one at the starting
Thanks for the info..I will keep these things in mind
@Neeraj joshi
Your blog is too young to get a good PR mate!! I think you should wait for few more months to get Good PR. There are lot of bloggers who lost their rankings from 4 to 0. You should be happy that you just lost rank from 1 to 0. Follow Google Webmaster Guidelines and remove links from your blog that are linked to Bad Neighborhood. I’m sure your blog should be fine.
I’ll try to keep those points in mind. Thanks for sharing
Hi i have my blog on Blogger. I cannot manually change the robots.txt manually and upload it like we do in wordpress. I am planning to shift to wordpress in newar future. But by then can you suggest something that i may implement on my blogger blog.?
Amandeep this post will help you
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/9-killer-blogspot-seo-tips-for-bloggers.html
Certainly!
google is not god to penalize my blog!
sthg similar happend to my school’s blog a month ago. sum malware infection on sum1’s pc leaked the ftp id and the password. so some worm hosted on a russian site (as i learnt from the ip) writes a few text files and edits robot and index files. links to weirdo warez n porn sites resulting in all search engines and site advisors blocking my website saying this site hosts unsafe content. had been a disaster.
Excellent points! Many new blogs are guilty of these, often times due to their ignorance on the subject. If bloggers only knew then what they know now…