Search engine penalties for web addresses?

[MikeOS]

Hi all,

Is there a way to find out if a web address has been penalised by search engines due to things like over submission or overly keyword heavy etc?

Thanks for any information.

[gbonnet]

Hi,

Not as such ... these kinds of things are at the discression of search engines ...

The only you could tell that is by monitoring / recording the position in SERPs of some of the targeted keywords and see how it behaves.

If you think a site has been penalised then, try to find out on your site all bits that are dodgy and try to get some better links. With time, the website will re-appear.

If you submit your website to web directories the key is to do that at a low but constant pace. That implies to avoid anything automatic.