GOOGLE PENALTY RISK SCANNER · FREE · NO SIGNUP

Google penalty risk scanner

Checks 32 signals: E-E-A-T, GEO (AI search), Helpful Content, technical SEO, and Core Web Vitals: and returns an instant rank-risk score with a prioritized fix list. Will your page survive the next Google update and show up in AI Overviews?

Google Penalty Risk Scanner32 signals · SEO + GEO · free
32+
signals checked
E-E-A-T, GEO / AI search, technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, content, YMYL
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scan time
Full page fetch and analysis in under 15 seconds
Free
5 full scans/day
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What 32 signals does this scanner check?

E-E-A-T Signals4 signals
  • Author byline & schema markup
  • External citations (2+ required)
  • Publication date & freshness
  • Trust pages (About / Contact / Privacy)
Technical SEO14 signals
  • HTTPS / SSL
  • Noindex (meta + X-Robots-Tag)
  • robots.txt crawlability (Googlebot)
  • H1 tag (missing / multiple)
  • H2 structure & heading hierarchy
  • Viewport meta (mobile-first)
  • Open Graph tags (og:title, og:image)
  • Meta description length
  • Title tag length
  • Canonical tag
  • Schema markup (JSON-LD)
  • Image alt text coverage
  • Internal link count
  • Server response time
Content & Scaled-Content5 signals
  • Word count / thin content
  • Flesch readability score
  • Keyword stuffing / density
  • Repeated boilerplate (templated / spun)
  • Doorway / link-heavy pages
  • AI-style phrasing (advisory, not scored)
GEO / AI Search4 signals
  • Q&A structure & FAQPage schema
  • Extractable lists & tables
  • llms.txt for AI crawlers
  • Statistics & data density for citation
Core Web Vitals4 signals
  • Performance score (0–100)
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
  • Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
  • Total Blocking Time (TBT)
YMYL Detection1 signals
  • YMYL topic detection (health / finance / legal) + risk multiplier

Who is the Google Penalty Risk Scanner for?

SEO Professionals
Audit client pages before and after algorithm updates.
Content Teams
Check every article before publishing to catch risk signals early.
Bloggers
See which posts are at risk and prioritize what to fix first.
Digital Agencies
Run bulk scans and share client reports via a public link: Pro feature.

Free Google Penalty Risk Scanner: Protect Your Rankings Before the Next Update

Most SEO audits only catch technical errors. Google's recent algorithm updates: Helpful Content, core updates, and E-E-A-T changes: penalize pages for signals traditional tools miss, and AI answer engines now decide who gets cited at all. Credify's Google penalty risk scanner doubles as a rank risk predictor: it checks 32 signals in a single pass and returns a 0–100 risk score that shows exactly how exposed your page is before the next update hits. An E-E-A-T risk score, a google ranking drop checker, GEO / AI-search readiness signals, Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights, and a helpful content update checker: all in one scan, in under 15 seconds.

After scanning, the tool shows each issue with a severity level (Critical → Low) and a concrete fix: not just a flag. URL mode checks Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, TBT) via PageSpeed Insights alongside all on-page signals. Pro users can generate shareable report links for clients, run bulk scans, and track score changes over time. To go deeper, pair it with the E-E-A-T Checker for a full quality rewrite, run the AI Detector to measure AI pattern density, and check Readability to hit the Flesch score Google favors.

I've spent years watching sites get destroyed by algorithm updates they never saw coming. The sites that recovered fastest had three things in common: a named author with credentials, external citations, and Core Web Vitals in the green. Every signal in this scanner came from analyzing pages before and after major Google updates: the patterns that consistently separated the rankings that held from the ones that dropped.
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Nauman KhanCEO & Founder, Credify

Google Ranking Drop Checker: What Your E-E-A-T Risk Score Reveals

Your E-E-A-T risk score is a composite of five weighted signals: author byline presence, external citations (minimum 2 required), trust page coverage (About, Contact, Privacy), publication date freshness, and YMYL topic classification. A score above 50 means Google's quality raters: and its automated systems: are likely discounting your content against better-attributed competitors. The helpful content update checker inside this tool cross-references your page's word count, readability, keyword density, and templated-content patterns against the thresholds that have historically triggered ranking drops in core updates. Fix the highest-severity issues first: adding an author byline and two external citations alone typically drops your rank risk predictor score by 15–25 points. For YMYL pages covering health, finance, or legal topics, the signal multiplier is 1.5×: those gaps cost significantly more in the final risk score.

GEO: Optimize for AI Search Engines, Not Just Google

Search is splitting in two. Classic SEO still decides your blue-link rankings, but generative engine optimization (GEO) decides whether AI answer engines: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini: quote your page or skip it. The scanner now checks four GEO signals alongside every SEO check: Q&A structure (question-style headings and FAQPage schema AI engines lift answers from), extractable lists and tables (generative engines quote bullets and steps far more than walls of text), statistics and data density (stat-rich content gets cited disproportionately in AI answers), and an llms.txt file (the emerging robots.txt for AI crawlers). Pages strong on both SEO and GEO win twice: they rank in Google and get surfaced inside AI-generated answers.

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