Google Penalties

A penalty is the sanctioning of a website by Google. The reason for punishing a website is because of a non-compliance with the Google Webmaster Guidelines.

Google penalties come in two flavours, manual- as well as algorithmic-penalties.

• What kinds of a Google Penalty are there and what are the differences?

Both kinds of penalties have almost the same effect on a sanctioned website:

• Ranking positions fall massively

Loss of top placements after receiving a Google Penalty

• The Visibility Index takes a massive hit

Loss of visibility for the domain because of a Google Penalty, B: Panda Update #23 C: Penguin Update 2.0