How Do I Recover from a Google Search Penalty?

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today's question comes from Tom, who asks about Google search algorithm changes. He was hit with a Google penalty, and even after updating his site, it still hasn't recovered. How can he get back into Google's favor? Check out Neil Patel's guide on QuickSprout to recovering from Google penalties (a short link to the article: http://askpat.com/penalty). Do you have a question about the Google search algorithm? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Braintree. Braintree will help you accept business payments for your products from customers across the world. Go to http://braintreepayments.com/pat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com.com.com.
0:09.0	Askpats.com.
0:11.0	Hey, what's up, everybody? Pat Flynn here. And welcome to episode 454 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.9	As always, I'm here to help people answering your online business-related questions five days a week.
0:20.7	And we have an SEO question today from Tom.
0:23.8	So let's just go right into Tom's question.
0:25.6	Here we go.
0:26.9	Hi, Pat.
0:27.5	My name's Tom, and I have a question about SEO.
0:31.6	A couple of years ago, my site got hit by the Google Panda penalty, and I dropped in the rankings.
0:39.4	I disavowed all the external links that Google seemed to think were spam, except for the ones that I knew weren't. And I've
0:45.5	tried everything with my SEO that I can think of to come back. I've been writing decent articles.
0:51.5	I've been, you know, posting them on social media. I've been getting
0:56.3	shares. But still, I can't seem to get out of this penalty area. And I'm just wondering if you
1:02.8	had any tips on what somebody can do if they were hit with a penalty.
1:08.3	Hey, Tom, what's up? I am so sorry to hear about your penalty and that, you know, you've been trying really
1:12.5	hard to recover from it.
1:13.7	I know a lot of people who got hit really hard and who still haven't yet recovered.
1:17.6	And a lot of people even had to start over, essentially.
1:20.8	But that isn't something that most of them had to do.
1:24.1	There's just a little bit of investigation that has to be done or maybe a lot of bit
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