Will you ever get banned from Google? Yes, you can

Will you ever get banned from Google? Yes, you can, and it can be real nasty for three reasons. First you will lose your page rank, and you will lose your domain. Worse, there will be no more indexed pages in search results, which means that there is no way for your target market to ever find you.

You may reason, “Google is not the only search engine in the world.” Though this is true, it actually garners the biggest market share when it comes to Internet traffic. It usually spells around 40 percent while the rest are shared by other search engines, which means if you are not in it, then you already lose 40 percent of Internet users.

But what should you do? The very first step to do is to determine the reason why. Sadly, Google doesn’t give you any news about it. It would not even tell you that you’re already banned unless you do the checking yourself. Nevertheless, there are common pitfalls.

You may avoid linking to websites that are considered to be unfriendly to Google. These are link farms, spammy websites, too-offensive web pages, or Adsense-filled sites. They normally rank very low, which can definitely pull your page rank too. However, if they get banned, then there’s a huge possibility that you will be too. The best way is to remove these links and look for quality ones.

This then leads us to the next situation, which is spamming. There are many ways to do this. You can stuff keywords to your articles, link to a lot of non-related websites, or post your URLs to forums and blogs. If they don’t catch you, those spam-hating people will report you to Google, which, in turn, increases the risks of getting banned.

Then there’s duplicated content, which is actually plagiarism in its strictest sense. Google doesn’t really have the mechanism of sensing that a work is republished with permission. Thus, even if you’ve already contacted the owner, you can still get banned because of this. The ultimate cure is to remove these duplicates and create your own from scratch.

When you’ve settled for the remedies, try to contact Google and see if they can listen to your plea. If not, you may really have to get another domain (as you will never get to use the banned one) and try to avoid all the mistakes that you did.

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