There are thousands of ways to get your website dropped from Google, and you probably know them very well: Keyword-stuffing, doorways, spamming, selling links, etc. I wrote an earlier article on what not to do in SEO, as well as a sequel, in which I touched on things that might get you in trouble, so read those posts if you haven’t done so already.

More important is how you get your site back on Google—and that’s what this post will be about today.

Let’s say you see that traffic from Google has greatly declined, and that your website is nowhere near the top for your major keywords—though it was ranking pretty well before. What happened? Your website has been placed under a penalty filter from Google and will stay there until you (A) get rid of the reason for the penalty, and (B) let Google know you fixed the problem.

Here is what to do:

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