Well, what I am going to share with you is very crucial for every webmaster and maybe even for every website in general.

Your website might suffer from a google penalty without you even knowing about it.

Here are some of the most common google penalties and how you can identify them easily:

Google Agressive Linkbuilding Penalty:

This is the most obvious. Most beginners will sooner or later run into this thinking they can beat Google by adding as many links as fast as you can. You should avoid adding a lot of links in a short time, especially when your site is new. The backlinkbuilding penalty won’t trigger that fast for established sites with PageRank. But, if your site is pretty new, you should avoid adding more than 5 backlinks per day and make sure that not all links come from the same page. E.g. adding 5 stories to digg on your first day wouldn’t be a good idea.

Penalty: For aggresive linkbuilding your site will drop out of the index. It is the so called Sandbox effect. You will stay in the sandbox for 1 week+, longer if you keep adding links from the same sources. Google likes natural links!

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