How do we know if Google has penalized our site?

In this article, you will know about the Google penalty and the methods that will help you identify google penalties.

The first thing that you need to ensure prior to optimizing your web for google is to check for whether Google is penalizing your site.

A website that has penalized by google can't achieve higher rankings, so your foremost priority should be to figure out which of the algorithmic changes are impacting your website and then accordingly creates a recovery plan.

What Is A Google Penalty?
When a website got removed either entirely or partially from the google index, then it does mean that some google penalty has hit the web. A website becomes automatically penalized by the google webspam filtering team according to the algorithms.

Google penalty also leads your website towards dropping in the ranking of the website completely or just a few pages from the website that are found manipulative. The same will be the penalty with spammy keywords. A website’s falling rankings affect not only its online visibility but also its conversions and credibility.

How do you will get to know if Google has penalized your website?
Let’s see how these methods will help you in tracking and identifying Google penalties

Method # 1: Google Search Console
One of the easiest methods to find out and track the google penalty is with the help of the medium of the google search console. Google uses this medium in order to communicate with the web developers and tell them about the potential issues with their might have along with manual penalties. You just have to register your site with google search console and then click on the "search traffic" option. After that, choose the option of "manual actions" that is placed on the sidebar.

If you see the displayed mesغیر مجاز می باشدe stating "No issues detected," then it means your website is all clean and safe from any type of manual or algorithmic penalty .

In case the mesغیر مجاز می باشدe shows any penalty applied to your site, then you must read the mesغیر مجاز می باشدe carefully with the reasons and try to rectify those problems, and then request google to review your website.

Method # 2: Google Analytics
Google Analytics is another way to identify the penalty. In this method, you will have to note the date when your organic audience deteriorates and check out that whether any Google update, like Panda or Penguin , has been launched around that date or not. If yes, then it does mean your website was affected by the update.

Method # 3: Search for your Brand on Google
You can also trace out a google penalty by doing a search on google from your domain name and check whether your website rank on the first page against that query or not.

Apart from this, you can also put the title tag text of the website in the google search bar and check if it ranks, and if you are still not able to see your domain there, then it surely means that your website has been penalized.