Advice on how to check for a Google penalty. To check for Google penalties with any degree of certainty can be difficult. For example, if your website experiences a sudden reduction in ranking for its main keyword terms it can be caused solely by a Google algorithm change or search results (SERP) update. 5390546 MORE >>

The moment you achieve that precious optimization, Google changes its algorithm and reverses all your gains. Another way to put this is that, as a writer or journalist, you should worry less about Google’s algorithm and more about the human algorithm. Writing content Google journalism Penguin update search engines SEO MORE >>

Amit Singhal, head of Search Quality at Google, wrote on the Google blog Thursday about Google’s latest update of its search algorithm. Singhal says, “Google’s new Freshness Update affects 35 percent of queries. This is company from Google who has been working very hard to clean up their results from fresh spam. MORE >>

Google SEO. Google AdWords. SELs Guide To Google. The Definitive Guide To Google Authorship Markup. At SMX Advanced 2011, Matt Cutts announced the Google initiative to begin attributing content to original authors. As of this writing, Google supports three methods of verifying that trust. Google+. MORE >>

Search Engine Journal Subscribe via RSS or email: 10 Ways to Diagnose a Google Penalty May 27th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 9 Comments An interesting thread on WebmasterWorld forums discusses ways to diagnose a possible Google penalty. Check if Google has blacklisted your site as unsafe for browsing (type [link] with your domain at the end). MORE >>