Google Spam Penalty Checker Saved My Website

Alright, I don’t really know if the Google spam penalty checker really saved my website because it’s not that popular yet. If it was, my spam penalty would have been a big hit to my traffic and on a larger scale website could have been a costly mistake. In this article I’d like to talk about the accidental mistake I made and share with others the website that helped resolve my google spam penalty of keyword stuffing.

Brief History of the Google Spam Penalty and Keyword Stuffing as I see it.

I see lots of SEO websites talking about google penalties and give a very basic outline of practices to avoid with very little actual examples of the mistakes in practice. With the competitive internet society growing every day its become very hard to get an edge on your competition. Everybody is always pushing the rules of right and wrong to the extreme to get the one SEO tip they need to get ahead of the rest. One thing that is very important is your content. You want it to focus around one subject and at various points make sure that focal keyword or phrase shows up several times in your article. You don’t want to over use or create hidden text that exploits your keywords resulting in a google spam penalty of keyword stuffing.

Years ago hidden HTML keyword descriptions were used to show search engines what websites and pages wanted the end-user to take away from their article, post, or webpage. Over time people caught on to this. People exploited the search engines by putting all sorts of information in their keyword descriptions. The result was webpages and websites being brought up in search results that their website didn’t really have good relevent information regarding the topic. Thus we get another form of search engine spam, keyword stuffing.  In an effort to keep the search engines up to the standards they were designed for, search engines had to adjust. Search engines in the past few years have focused less on keyword descriptions. Now using an intense algorithm, search engines read the content of your site or page and generate their own keywords or phrases based on the content.

My Google Spam Penalty Scenario – Keyword Stuffing

Myself, having little experience with SEO, had previously read about keywords and decided it was in my best interest to at least throw them in there. From what I’ve read from most SEO sites keywords are not a negative factor on websites. While keyword descriptions are not as important as it once was it won’t hurt your site or page as long as you don’t abuse it. So when I installed Yoast WordPress SEO plugin I decided to enable the keyword information. Let me stop here and just say that I read what Yoast had to say about keywords and how he didn’t really believe in using them anymore. I’m not trashing Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. I think it’s a great tool that will help anybody on any level in make sure they are getting majority of the content they need in their WordPress site. I’m not going to go on about Yoast here. Please though, for any person new to WordPress do yourself a big favor and check out their site for valuable information, current events, and their excellent plugins.

Ok back to my problem. I used Yoast keyword description and then pretty much just copied that info and put it in my tag section on my WordPress site. I had used it like this for about two months and didn’t think anything of it. I probably would never have thought more about it until I received a Google Spam Penalty out of the blue one day. Exactly 3 months to the day I started my site, my traffic went down to nothing. I searched Google for my webpages that were showing up on page 1 and 2 and found they were back some where in the 20′s. I immediately started reading everything I could find on Google penalties. What I found was tons of information but the topics were so general there was very little useful information to be found. The SEO sites that caught my eye all started off great with lots of information but when it got down to actually finding out what was wrong they wanted $200 to $500 to SEO your site. Annoyed and agitated a started doing my own tweaking. I had a lot of articles that while similar in content were related to different machines. I thought, hey Google spam penalty. Therefore I went back and rewrote 30 articles to make them totally unique from one another. That didn’t fix it. I found some of my page were showing up twice in Google’s search results creating duplicate content. I went back and redirected them with no results. 3 weeks later after trying several other things, removing some plugins, and basically trying to decide on starting over from scratch or waiting it out to see if some of the changes I made would work itself out I found a Google Spam Penalty checker that was legit.

Resolving My Google Spam Penalty – Keyword Stuffing

By now I was skeptical with all the information I had gathered with no results. I inserted one of my page URL’s and it came back with a Google Spam Penalty of a possible keyword stuffing issue. I decided it was time to break down a few of my articles to get to the root of the problem. After doing a keyword analyst I took those words and removed as much as possible. After taking a few articles down to about a quarter of the original content I removed my google keyword stuffing penalty from that article. Looking back over the articles I was disgusted by what I saw. No way was my content the problem. So I restored my content and focused on my SEO content. I decided to remove my keyword description through Yoast. After plugging several articles back into the google spam penalty tool they all came back ok for no keyword stuffing. At that point I had other things to do so I decided I would check on it later. Three hours later I sat down at my computer and my traffic was the highest it had been for 3 weeks. Since then traffic has steadily risen so the google spam penalty tool saved my website.

Conclusion about Google Spam Penalties and Keyword Stuffing.

Yeah I waited to the end to promote this site but here it is googlepenalty.com. The tool is not their own but from another site http://www.motoricerca.info/. However, I’ve only been able to find it in English once and don’t have the correct link for that. I do recommend googlepenalty.com though. By far they are a very good source for penalty articles that get to the root of the problem and not talk around it. Anyway check it out. It solved my problem. Even if it doesn’t solve your problem it will eliminate a possibility so you can move onto something else.  I’m new at this so it could have been a combination of things I was doing and the Yoast keyword information just set everything over the edge. I’m not blaming Yoast plugin for the problem. In my case removing the keyword tool solved my problem. So even another keyword tool from some other plugin could cause the same issue.

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