SeoAlchemist

Google has been known to issue out all kinds of penalties over the years; even Search Engine Journal was penalized a while back (or our Google Toolbar PageRank was). In addition to Google PageRank penalties, there are all kinds of reasons to get penalized by Google which range from building too many obvious spam links to publishing duplicate content, hoaxes or untrusted material.

A site can always fix their problems, hold their hand to their chest and promise Google that they will not go down the same route again, and can then file a reconsideration request, asking Google to review the site and reinclude the site in the Google index or get their PageRank back; dependent upon the severity of the penalty. (more…)