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What Does It Mean When You Get a Google Penalty
There were a few instances when my website got a Google Penalty. A Google Penalty under my understanding is when Google unranks your Keywords thus affecting your organic traffic. Many Keywords will go from first page to disappearing
Any of you have more specific information about getting a Google Penalty and the reasons why and how you fix it. Thank you in advance.
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There was a few instances where I got a Google Penalty. First time was in 2016 when I had a online FORUM and I back-linked articles and the post of my websites and forum constantly. It plummeted our organic traffic from 7,0000 unique visitors to literally zero. Google did not tell my technical team so we had to figure it out by trial and error. Many businesses got hurt because of the constant Google Algorithm Updates. Google Algorithm Updates is becoming more frequent and it can definitely affect your search engine organic traffic. Certain things like keyword stuffing, duplicate or similar content, toxic links, hard to understand articles, broken links, and Black Hat SEO are all NO NOs for Google and you can bet you will get a Google Penalty.
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From the little I know about Google Penalties on websites is Google will penalize you for duplicate content on blogs and websites. Grammarly has a function that checks for plagirsm but I do not think it is fully accurate. We only have a two man team for SEO and digital marketing and we use online forums and other websites to field juice to ours. From what I understand, it is technically possible to copy and paste or post duplicate content on online forums, but not individual blogs, pages on individual websites. Even on forums it is generally not recommended and can have several drawbacks: Always check the specific forum’s rules before posting. If you need to reference existing content, it’s better to summarize in your own words and provide a link to the original source when appropriate.