Question 1) My site has been penalized by google coz
of paid post and links, which left my site with a PR 0, do you have any
suggestions for that?”
Ross Dunn: Yes, the best
way to go is to have all of the paid posts and links removed; if that
has not happened already. Then once you are certain you are no longer
infringing on Google’s guidelines, go into your Google Webmaster Tools
account and submit a request for reconsideration of your website; if you
can’t find the area to do that, then just do a quick search in the help
area and you will find it.
Unfortunately there is no guarantee this
will get you back into Google’s graces and there is also no telling how
long Google will take to even get to your request, however, it is an
excellent first step. The next step is to build your site into a
powerhouse of excellent information by creating a blog or getting more
active in the one you have. This involves posting original, high quality
content that provides potential readers with something of value – be it
simply an enjoyable read or useful tips. The act of building your
site’s reputation through new quality content will help your odds of
getting back into Google’s graces considerably.
Question 2) “I am eager to know if we go for URL
removal request and make changes to site and then again submit link to
google.Does it faster way to get out from penalization?”
Ross Dunn: No, although
I can’t say I have tried such an option, my opinion is that removing
your URL will not speed anything up because Google will retain the
historical profile of the domain – including its transgressions.
Question 3) “What are other penalties that could
still exist? Like content duplication, same meta tags for all pages, bad
neighborhood, etc. If you have any resources that provides information
on “Google Penalties” than it would be great to share with SEO
community.”
Ross Dunn: Content
duplication is not met with a penalty per se unless the site in question
is 100% duplicate content at which point it might as well be penalized
since Google will have little or no interest in it. There are a few
exceptions to that such as news aggregate websites which are, by
definition entirely duplicate-content-driven.
As for duplication of Metas and Titles…
that is just going to harm you in terms of on-page optimization but it
will not incur any sort of Google penalty unless, of course, the tags
are full of SPAM but that should be a given to most novice SEOs.
Bad neighborhoods is an entirely different thing altogether because
it really depends what you mean by that. If you have links predominantly
from “bad neighborhoods” then it is quite possible Google will go
beyond just negating the benefit of the links to actually penalizing
your site because it will appear as though you are trying to game
Google’s trust algorithms. If you mean being hosted on a server where
you share the ip address with some bad neighborhoods… well that is a
little more difficult to prove but I expect it can be a problem.
