Google Penalty Recovery

Have you got a Google Penalty or noticed a drastic reduction in traffic? If so you might need the SEO Leaders A Team!

So, your business website got penalised from Google? Massive drop in visitors or leads and no idea why?

What types of Google Penalties are there?

There are two main types of Google penalties, algorithmic Penalties and Manual Penalties

Different Types of Google Penalties

What is a Google Manual Penalty

Google manual penalties are just as they sound. Your website has been manually penalised by the good folks at Google! Google has an army of manual reviewers who assess sites that don’t meet Googles quality standards. This can be for numerous reasons. penalties include ‘unnatural links TO your site eg/ paid dodgy links’, ‘low quality content or duplicate content’, ‘cloaking penalties’, ‘hacked site’ penalties, ‘keyword stuffing/low quality content’, ‘pure spam’, ‘structured markup penalties’, ‘thin content’, ‘unnatural links FROM your site eg link sellers’, ‘user generated spam’ otherwise known as spun content, ‘expired jobs posting penalty’ which is when you are advertising jobs but not marking them up in schema as no longer available when the vacancy has gone.

Manual penalties can be checked by looking in Webmaster Tools for your site. The symptoms of having a manual penalty are that your site has 1/ disappeared totally from Google, or 2/ partly disappeared from Google.

What is an Algorithmic Google Penalty

What is an Google Algorithmic Penalty

Algorithmic penalties come in a wide range of types and can be even more arduous than manual penalties to deal with because there is no way of knowing the cause and you cannot submit a reconsideration request. They can become apparent by a sudden loss of rankings or some pages not ranking at all. Google penalties are named differently by the industry (eg Panda, Penguin, Penguin 2) and are aimed at tackling different issues, eg paid links, thin content, affiliate websites (which often get hit as Google doesn’t like them!) and so on.
What can cause a Google algorithmic penalty? Essentially any Webmaster Guidelines that are broken can trigger an algorithmic penalty, sometimes accidentally or even if Google has a problem with the update and penalises innocent sites.

What can I do about an algo penalty? Here at SEO Leaders we would do a deep dive on the website (like an SEO Audit but focused on quality rater guidelines) and its backlinks and then fix all the issues found. It can take some time to recover from an algo penalty and some sites never fully recover depending on what the reason for the penalty was.

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Offering West Yorkshire SEO services we can provide all businesses in Leeds with a very personalised service and you will be assigned an experienced project manager for all liaison and project meetings. We will provide regular updates via phone and email (we confirm frequency depending on the project size) about your campaigns progress, depending on which campaign you are running with us.

As a local company based in Yorkshire we can easily meet you in person to assist in developing mutual trust between ourselves and your company and this helps to develop long-term business relationships for both parties. We want your Leeds business to be even more successful than you are right now, and we know that for the vast majority of companies we can make this happen. If for any reason we don’t think your goals align with your budget or are not realistic, we will be honest about this.
However we have ranked sites in the top of the loans and the finance industry, as well as some big hitting eCommerce agency , so we can get results in any area, what this depends on is timescale (it takes time) and money (it takes a lot of time, resources, financial resources and skill/knowledge to conquer super competitive markets).

For any company that we may be doing business with we will always carry out a basic SEO audit and digital presence audit for free, we will share our key findings on this with you for no obligation or cost at all.

With our huge experience in the digital and SEO sector we realise that a lot of our clients do not necessarily understand SEO technical’s, web development languages and so on. We pride ourselves on our ability to translate the technical fluently and reliably to the non-technical business person. We make the complex sound simple so that you can understand our planned vision for growing your business and an outline of how we build our services to achieve that. I

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Need Help with a Google Penalty or Low Website Traffic?

Here at SEO Leaders we have had a large amount of Google penalties lifted from websites over the years. We have in depth knowledge of what can be the cause of penalties (from the very vague advisory google gives if its a manual one) and we are constantly keeping up to speed with the SEO industry and Google updates with conferences and SEO agency groups that we belong on. So, there is a very good chance we can help with your website.