How to Recover Your Website from Google Penalty?

For some people who owns a website or runs a blog, a Google Penalty means the end of the world. Honestly, it is not the end of the road. After all a ban on your website is not the end of the world. Check out this blog post of mine on how to recover your website from Google Penalty.

To be very frank there are two types of penalties which Google imposes on websites, one is Manual Penalty and the other one is Algorithmic. Manual is the one which is easy to track, though might be hard to recovered, and algorithmic is something which needs lots of analysis to find out.

In this blog post we are going to discuss about the manual penalty being imposed by Google on any website. Its notification can be seen in the Google webmaster tools. Though manual penalty are some very simple penalties imposed for things like unnatural link building, link selling, allowing poor quality guest blogging, etc. but it is a time consuming affair to recover your website from this penalty.

As far as recovering from algorithmic penalty is concerned, it depends on which types of penalty are being imposed on your website, though too hard to find out the exact reason for this penalty. On the other hand with manual penalty, you have the idea of the exact reasons why your website is being penalized for and then you just need to come up with the modification on your website and you are done.

Google will review your website and will let you know if it has been rectified properly or some more changes are required and if found okay, penalty will be removed.

How to Recover Your Website from Google Penalty? 

It is quite simple. You just need to rectify your website from the actual reason and you need to file a reconsideration request, and if you rectified it correctly the penalty will be revoked.

Though saying this is quite easier than doing it.

I guess these were some of the blogs which I shared in the past and will be useful for you for this purpose:

20 Reasons Which Might Penalize Your Website by Google!
How to Survive the Guest Blogging Penalty?
How to Get Success as far as Link Removal is concerned?
Shift Your Focus Towards Building a Quality Site than Link Building!

I guess these are some of the blogs which might provide you the opportunity how you can recover your website from manual Google Penalty.

Here are some things which you need to take care of while doing all these things:

Be Patient 

Don’t panic if your website got penalized for something. It is quite usual that you or your SEO representative are following something which is in trends now, and soon become obsolete and Google might penalize your website for the same. Cleaning up a website is not an easy task; it usually takes a hell lot of time. Consider a website having more than 90,000 back links and facing a unnatural links penalty, being the SEO representative of that particular website, you just need to check almost all those links manually and then only you can decide about which links need to remain and which need to be removed.

And then when you start contacting the website owners for link removal you will actually analyze the time it takes to remove one link. Adding links seems quite easier than removing them.

So, don’t rush or panic at all. Calmly analyze the conditions and situation and work accordingly.

Before filing the reconsideration request, be sure to check it thrice. I too did the same mistake on my blog Tech Acid once, and my reconsideration request got rejected by Google.

You just need to be patient enough and do review the considerations twice or thrice before filing the reconsideration request to Google.

Don’t Expect Quick Recovery 

No matter how small the intensity of a penalty is but never expect a quick response and recovery of your website from it. You might think that it is an easy task, but just consider the fact that Google receives millions of reconsideration requests daily, how tough it becomes for them to manually analyze all the websites and then also keep an eye on them.

Thus you can’t expect an improvement in your Google search position even after they revoked the penalty from your website. To get some improvement you need to wait for a long time.

Don’t Hurry in Filing Reconsideration Requests 

As I said already that don’t file reconsideration requests in a hurry. Make sure before filing the request that it should be complete and correct.

If you are rectifying your website, try to check it two three times before filing the reconsideration requests, else Google won’t take much time to reject it. Honestly there are times when we think that we are correct, but then if you analyze the site once again, you will find a few mistakes still remaining on your site.

So, try not to give any chance to Google to catch those mistakes.

Use Disavow Links Tool Properly 

If you don’t know what is a disavow links tool or how to use it, then you must check this blog post of mine: How to Deal with Negative SEO & use Disavow Links Tool!

This blog post has all the details about how to use the Disavow links tool of Google, through which you can disavow the links which you found unnatural and you tried removing them, but failed to do so. Mastering the Google Disavow tool is crucial for SEO success.

I have noticed one thing, many people give so much effort in making comments on disavow file, which is not that much important as far as I can say. It is an automatic process and I don’t think so that anyone is going to check your comments, so it is better to make this text file as simple as possible.

Though I am not saying to not give any comments in it, but you can group and clubbed them easily, like a comment and then all the links which fall in the same group and then other comment and the relevant links, instead of giving a comment with each links and making the file size heavy.

Don’t Implement the Same SEO Tactics which Caused Penalty 

Don’t display to Google that you are keen to implement the same SEO tactics which caused penalty on your website. Never revert back to the technique which caused a penalty on your website, else Google will harshly ban your website.

This is the moment when you need to review if you need to hire new SEO personnel for your website or are you satisfied with your old one?

I guess these were some of the things which you need to take care of while recovering your website from Google Penalty. Though I have heard many people saying that it is better to kill this website and develop a new site for fighting against such penalties, but I guess this is not the best approach. Killing a website just for penalties is not a good idea.

Try to revamp the site, with new set of content, new things, and I am sure it will regain its glorious past and will improve in coming days as well, if you are not trying anything wrong.

Please do let me know if you liked this blog post of mine or not? Also do let me know if it is the same thing which you were looking for or it was not the same? Based on your comments on this blog post I will decide upon if it is the right approach of should I need to change something?