Google Will Tell If Your Website Has Been Manually Penalized

Think if your website is running good and its showing on the first page of Google Search Engine, but 1 fine day you find that your website has been dropped from 1st Page to 5th Page in Google search results and you didn't know how it happens with your site, chances are that your site has been manually penalized-may be it happens when you did something which is not in accordance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

In earlier days it was almost impossible to know the specific reason for a Google penalty and a website owner only make a Guess that he done something wrong with his website or some other websites having Good content and they pushed his website below those sites, Or owner don't able to know which factor affect his/her website for violating Guidelines or because of other factors beyond their control.

Well I hope none of us would ever need to use this but in case your site gets penalized in future, you can always ask Google through a reconsideration request and they may offer you an hint for debugging in the right direction. The Search Quality Team writes on the Webmaster blog:

Now, if your site is affected by a manual spam action, we may let you know if we were able to revoke that manual action based on your reconsideration request. Or, we could tell you if your site is still in violation of our guidelines. If your site is not actually affected by any manual action, we may let you know that as well

If your site has been manually penalized in Google for violating guidelines, you need to file a reconsideration request and wait until they revoke the penalty. If the site is not ranking due to a bug in Google algorithms, or because of access issues (like your server is down), they’ll let you know that as well.

Here’s one of the older videos from Google that talks in detail about reconsideration requests – the Webmaster tools UI though may have changed in these years.