Google Penguin penalty is automated or manual?

[vtmoz]

Hi,

I have seen some of our competitors are missing from top SERP and seems to be penalised as per this penalty checker: http://pixelgroove.com/serp/sandbox_checker/. Is this right tool to check penalty? Or any other good tools available?

Are these penalties because of recent Penguin update? If so, is this a automated or manual penalty from Google? I don't think all of these tried with black-hat techniques and got penalised. The new penguin update might triggered their back-links causing this penalty.

Even we dropped for last 2 weeks. What's the solution for this? How effectively link-audit works?

Thanks,

Satish

[PenaltyHammer]

Hi Satish

First of all. Those are only tools. They predict if you have penalty or not but won't tell you in 100%: "You've been penalized". Im not using that kind of tools to tell somebody he was penalized or not. Nothing will replace digging into data.

Penguin penalty is "automated penalty" (real time now) and you won't see messages in google search console.

How effectively? If you got enough number of good links, then you have the chance to bounce back after link audit completed. If you don't then you can see no rise or not to previous serps but seo after will be 100% effective again (at least for a start till next messing with google). Also there's another option - that's not link related penalty.

Choice is yours.

[vtmoz]

Hi Furtak,

Thanks for the response. Here I have uploaded our ranking screenshot. Please have a look and let us know your valuable understandings. Based on that, we conclude something to work on like link audit if we are certain of it.

http://imgur.com/a/J7Cdz

We have improved ranking when we fixed certain broken links, but dropped on Sep 17th, which is too early to blame on Penguin (my guess). One thing to notice here is that we had reclaimed some links (around 10) on 15th and we dropped on 17th. We reclaimed more than 50 links for last one month. Do these redirects pushed us down?

We dropped more on USA.

Thanks,

Satish

[PenaltyHammer]

Whats the domain name?

[vtmoz]

Hi Furtak,

I will send you in PM.

Thanks,

Satish