Has your website suddenly lost rankings for its primary keywords? You may have been labeled a spammer by Google. There are steps you can follow to get your site restored. Google penalizes sites for using black hat SEO tricks, for exchanging links, for selling text ads or for using other deceptive.If you fix the problem and submit a Google Reconsideration Request, chances are that you can restore your website’s rankings.

1. Check for access issues: Log in to your Google Webmaster Tools Account. On the Overview Page you can see the last date that Googlebot successfully spidered your home page. You can also check whether there are any crawling errors including pages not found, unreachable URL’s, URLs timed out errors and URLs restricted by robots.txt tags.
2. Check for messages: Check the message center of your Webmaster Tools account. If Google notices that there is a problem with your website, they will sometimes send you a message detailing some issues which you need to fix.
3. Read Google’s Webmaster Guidelines: If there are no crawling errors and you don’t see any messages, check to see if your site is or has at some point been in violation of the Webmaster Guidelines.
4. Fix your site: If your site is in violation, make changes to your site so that it falls within Google’s guidelines. Note any past problems that you may have already fixed.
5. Submit a reconsideration request: Now you can log into your Webmaster Tools Account and Under Tools, click on “Request reconsideration. Explain what you think was wrong with your site and what steps you have taken to fix it. You will receive a message in the Message Center confirming that Google received your request.

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