Does Index Status Goes Down If Website is Penalized by Google?

[Prabhu.Sundar]

Hi Friends,

Few of my friends told me that index status of a website goes down goes if it is penalized by Google. I can see my organic traffic has went down drastically after the Panda update on July 17th 2015 but index status still remains the same. So, I am  bit confused. Any advice on this.

[Prabhu.Sundar]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your prompt response. Then what do you think the reason for my sites drop in rankings when Panda 4.2 was updated. I have attached my index status as well as Organic Traffic. Panda 4.2 started on July 17th and on July 19th my index status increased and from July 19th my organic traffic went down. Any advice on this.

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[RobertFisher]

You are looking at this a bit incorrectly. With the rollout of Panda, you are dealing with a change in the algorithm. If your site drops as the result of this, that is not really a "penalty" in the sense you are speaking of. So, while you lost ranking, your site is still being crawled and indexed.

With a Manual Penalty, potentially, you could have an impact on the frequency the site is crawled and whether or not pages that are penalized are indexed.

I hope this helps you understand it a bit better.

Robert