Google Penalties

List of the google penalties we know exist.

[Internet Marketing M]

1. I know of a site that has over 1,000 incoming links that is now a pr2. The majority of those links are not internal. I know this because up to a week or 2 ago, the back links showed it that way. It used to be a pr6, then a pr5, now pr2 showing no backlinks at all.

Thus lets list the penalties we know exist:
1. PR2 with no backlinks
2. PR0.
3. Grey (No matter what you hear, I guarantee you this is a penalty that exists for a fact.

Your options for repair:
1. Throw out domain, start again.
2. Disallow googlebot, hope in 2 months if you let it back, it will let you back.
3. Ask googleguy specifically about your site here, hope he has pity on you.

Anyone have anything that should be added to this list?

[rfgdxm1]

If this site has over 500 incoming links, sounds surely like a penalty. Unless it is some sort of Google bug. Has this site been doing shady things? If so, begging for mercy after doing that can't hurt, but don't hold your breath. Is there any chance a competitor has somehow done something to try and sabotage this site? Or, an enemy out of spite, malice and revenge? There actually is some kook out there threatening he is going to get my site kicked out of all the search engines, so there are nuts out there that will at least try. :( I got so paranoid I triple checked the few sites I link to to make sure they seemed squeaky clean.

One other possibility. It occurs to me if this site has over 500 inbound links, it probably has a lot of outbound links too. While it is easy for someone like me that links to only 3 sites run by others to check them over thoroughly to see if they look squeaky clean, this would seem a monumental challenge for a site with a ton of outbound links. Any chance this site was tricked into linking to a bad neighborhood? Or, is it possible that this site has old links it doesn't check, which while long ago they were A-OK, have since been taken over by someone running a link farm?

Since unless this is a Google bug it has to be a penalty, this site should try and figure out what caused it. Unless, of course they were shady and know exactly what they did.

[kgormat]

We have a site that was just entered into Google that had a PR2 for the past 2 months and showed inbound links. After the latest update it shows PR2 with no inbound links. Please note that we've done nothing to manipulate PR, we've only made adjustments to the noframes area so Google would spider the content, as it is a frames site with php.

To summarize, if we received a penalty, it is quite unfair as we've done absolutely nothing to warrant one. I'm hoping the PR2 with no inbound links indicates something other than a penalty, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.

[rfgdxm1]

>We have a site that was just entered into Google that had a PR2 for the past 2 months and showed inbound links. After the latest update it shows PR2 with no inbound links.

Somebody please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it normal with the link: command not to show links if they are below a PR of 3? kgormat, have you checked the PR of the sites that link to you? It is possible that they have dropped in PR, and this is why you don't see them with the link: command. The fact you used to be PR2, and are still PR2, doesn't really suggest a penalty. Now if you went from PR6 to PR2, THEN I'd say worry.

[kgormat]

Correction, the site has a PR3, but the inbound links have disappeared. Sorry for the error.

[kgormat]

I checked another PR3 site which has 1-2 inbound links and it no longer shows the inbound links as well. Perhaps I've been out of the loop, but it does appear that Google isn't showing inbound links for sites with a PR3 or less.

Perhaps I can quit worrying now.

[MOOSBerlin]

Hi, greets from Berlin to your great forum. I think, that the site in my profile has a PR0-penalty. In october 2002 the site was with a PR 2, but from december (if i remember right), it was PR 0. I now have read here a lot, and i think it was because of "cross-linking" (but in this month we did'nt know about this)! From the beginning of this year we have made a lot of changes and partnerships and programming-stuff - the result is, if you type in Google the domain Google shows now over 2.000 sites with links to the domain, but still PR 0. Any ideas or a tip from Mr. GoogleGuy (sorry for my poor english)?