A Google penalty is the negative impact on a website's search ranking based on updates to Google's search algorithm. There are so many reasons to get penalized by Google such as using black hat SEO, using a copied content on your site, slow loading of page, etc. You may notice a sudden fall in your daily traffic. Its really unpredictable when your site will be penalized.
In this post, I will tell you a way by which you can check whether your site or blog is penalized by Google or not.
Check whether your website is Penalized by Google or not
1. Go to Is My Website Penalized
2. Write the domain or URL of your website.
3. Now select which search engine you want to look for. You can mark anyone between Google and Bing.
4. Now click on 'Is My Website Penalized?' and the results will be shown to you.
There are 4 possible result with this tool.
Not Penalized - It means your website is safe
Hard To Tell - This result is related to the incorrect use of 'Robots' Meta tags or the robot.txt file. Once you solve this issue your website will be again back to normal.
Penalized - It means that your website is penalized by that search engine.
Definitely Panalized - It means that your website is penalized by more than 1 search engine.
