Before you start investigating whether your website has been penalized by Google, it is important to understand exactly what a Google penalty consists of.
When a website is penalized, it means that Google has decided to reduce its ranking in search results.
This is because Google has determined that the website does not comply with its rules or policies.
You check Search Console on a Monday morning and your top money keyword has dropped from position 3 to position 47. No code changes. No migration. No hosting switch. That gut punch is usually the first clue that Google has slapped a manual or algorithmic penalty on your domain — and yes, it can happen […]
Your organic traffic suddenly tanks. Rankings for keywords you owned for years vanish overnight. You check everything—server, sitemap, robots.txt—and nothing explains it. That sinking feeling? It might be a Google penalty. I’ve been through this with client sites, and the signs are rarely as obvious as Google makes them sound. Let me be blunt: most […]
You wake up, open Search Console like every morning, and there it is: a 60% drop in clicks overnight. No warning, no explanation. Your first thought is clear: «Google has penalized me.» And honestly, you’re probably right. But before you burn your site to the ground, let’s figure out what actually happened and how to […]
Si tu web ha perdido posiciones de repente y no sabes por qué, es probable que Google Panda te haya puesto el ojo. Este algoritmo, integrado en el core de Google desde 2016, sigue siendo el verdugo de los contenidos basura. En 2026, con la irrupción de la IA generativa, Panda es más relevante que […]
