Toxic backlinks are often one of the prime reasons behind your website’s poor performance and low organic ranking. These notorious backlinks make your site vulnerable to Google’s penalties that you normally shouldn’t be concerned about, but with them in tow, your site’s ranking takes a nosedive.
To make matters worse, these penalties can hit your website in two ways: manually or algorithmically.
As the term suggests, an algorithmic penalty happens because of an algorithm update. But this ‘penalty’ is not something that the website owner can control as it is an outcome of specific ranking factors getting affected that may have been of no concern before the update.
So, if your website experiences a drop in its rankings, you have to figure out the affected ranking parameter and address it as soon as possible. Soon, you can reclaim your lost SEO glory and get the ranking your website deserves.
On the other hand, a manual penalty comes straight from Google per se. Google identifies these penalties due to factors stemming from a discrepancy in the algorithm or a report filed by a competitor, and you’ll be notified about the same on the Google Search Console (GSC). However, you can get the penalty addressed by eliminating bad links to other sites and then applying for a revaluation request to sort out the issue.