Many a times, webmasters who are penalized don’t agree that they have done something wrong with the Google guidelines. 90% of the webmasters complain that they don’t know what’s happened and Google has taken an unfair step by banning or penalizing them.

Even so, we all know that they aren’t right. Google bans/warns a site based on valid reasons. But it could be possible that, we aren’t able to find the problems on our site before they do. Webmasters have to accept it.

So, how do we make sure one’s site is not doing anything against Google guidelines ?

Use this tool – Spam detector. It checks for a couple of (not all) most common SEO blackhat methods on your site, and finds out if Google might consider it against their guidelines.

I can assure that it will find something “stupid” but I’d suggest that you take their advice seriously. For instance, it found that DSB has some text in the footer area that might be considered as hidden text. I hadn’t found it earlier – impressive !

So, if you want to make sure you stick to Google guidelines (most of them) and are not doing anything black-hat, check out the tool.

It checks the following factors on a page.

1 – Hidden text

2 – Doorway pages

3 – Keyword stuffing

4 – Unnatural text