Comments on: Holiday Trivia: How do you know when your site is being penalized by Google?

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:19:03 +0000

I give the prize to aedean! In fact, those are the exact 2 things I look at initially. My bet is that aedean has experienced a Google penalty (like me!)

By: aedean

aedean — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:03:12 +0000

Performancing stats is an easy way to find out if your being penalized by google. You will see that none or very few of your search engine traffic from your popular keywords are coming from Google rather Yahoo, MSN, etc.

Also the keywords that used to bring you traffic from Google will not even have your website in the SERP.

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:36:09 +0000

Combine all the hints literally into one meaningful sentence and you should have it. If I would have a page where Yahoo+MSN generate more than 15% of the incoming SE traffic I would be in trouble (regarding the original question). Just another hint…

By: Eddie G

Eddie G — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:00:25 +0000

When it gets banned from AdSense?

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:12:47 +0000

Rich…you’re on the right track with your second guess. PageRank, of course, is irrelevant. Search referrals are critical. But I’m looking for something more specific. My second clue gives it away.

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:53:40 +0000

> A wise man once called it…

By: invisibastard

invisibastard — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:44:36 +0000

Try two:

Search referrals vs. Time. A wise man once called it the only SEO graph that matters.

Thanks,
Rich

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:14:59 +0000

Christmas Eve Hint: Google marketshare + search referrals + Yahoo/MSN + ratios

By: invisibastard

invisibastard — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:25:01 +0000

When your PageRank falls faster than…um…something that falls really fast?

By: debng

debng — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:03:11 +0000

For me….it was when I not longer had Google search results showing up in my stats. Fortunately I was able to send an email to Google to clear up the problem.

By: davidlind

davidlind — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:06:29 +0000

Maybe your daily Google keyword count on Google Analytics goes down to zero? A sight that I never hope to see.

Onward and Upward
–C.S. Lewis

Virginia Breeze/ http://davidnotes.com

By: marcusdunn

marcusdunn — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:00:56 +0000

Maybe you do not see any activity from GoogleBot or search engine search results links in your log files.

By: justchris

justchris — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:43:35 +0000

searching for my-website.com does not return links on my-website.com

By: august

august — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:28:33 +0000

Errr...it's not in the top 100k in Alexa? Mariella Moon My Twitter My StumbleUpon

By: slyvisions

slyvisions — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:08:34 +0000

Here’s my answer: if your site/blog is not AT LEAST on the first page of Google when searching for it.

Sly from Slyvisions.com

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:21:45 +0000

By: OliverTaco

OliverTaco — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:10:35 +0000

Uh, you find a .mp3 file of Matt Cutts chortling “bwah ha ha ha ha?”

No? How about you find a competitor’s wikipedia entry ranking for your brand name?

Actually, it’s a good question. We tend to look at keyword related search traffic because it is pretty consistent for us. YMMV.

-OT