Is There A New Google Penalty?

Are you using an SEO Plugin on your website and/or Blog?

If you are, I recommend deleting the plugin and adding the necessary search engine optimization properties directly to your HTML files. If you’re using a blogging theme such as Thesis, you don’t need to add additional SEO plugins; everything you need to affect these fields is easily accessible within the admin panel and the individual posting pages.

The word is spreading that Google may in fact have a new website penalty for using a WordPress SEO plugin. This plugin actually hides a portion of your page and won’t allow Google to index the page properly. It’s described as a “seven-day penalty” which prevents your post from being indexed for, duh – seven days. Keep in mind, your new post always appears on the home page of your blog – and this could have an impact on your blog’s index page.

Have you seen this happen to your site? If so, please share the details.