Google Question
 

Does Plugz or Plugrush are considered blind link and are penalized by Google Ranking?

if it's plugrush mobile redirect 100% yes, but if it's a widget i don't think someone got penalize lately (considering 80% of webmasters using them)

No idea on plugz, still looking them.

Would anyone mind explaining why they would purchase something known to lower their google pagerank?

But those really lower the google PR?

It's free. With mobile redirects you get money for some days or weeks, then your website usually fizzle and disappear from the search engines.

I never trusted redirects. You're way better retaining these visitors and keep them coming back several times.

I didn't get penalized for plugrush but my white label site it's penalized for thin content, white labels suck don't know what they are good for.

Is there an easy way to tell if you're being penalized by google?

One easy test is to go to Google and enter site:yourdomain.com and see what results you get. If the page says "Your search - site:yourdomain.com - did not match any documents" then it's likely you have a penalty. If your site is in Big G's webmaster tools you can look for messages there too.

HTH

Yep, they have a whole process for this. I actually just got a site out of their "Thin Content" ban recently and it's been re-indexed. It was a whitelabel cam site of course, now it's a blog. Check webmaster tools to see if you've been hit.

the easies way, do only this on google"

info:mydomain.com

if the main page doesn t appear, the website has been hit with the thin penalty content

if you do only

site:mydomain.com

then there is no clear indication of thin penalty content, thin penalty sites are still indexed, they just don t rank anymore

do only "site:mydomain.com" to check if there is another more harsh penalty, like manual spam, mobile redirect etc that could trigger you website to be fully deindexed.