This Google penalty risk scanner checks 28 signals — E-E-A-T, 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?
Checks 28 signals · E-E-A-T · Helpful Content · Technical SEO · Free
E-E-A-T, technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, content quality, YMYL
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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. Credify's Google penalty risk scanner doubles as a rank risk predictor: it checks 28 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, 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 Helpful Content Update was the worst — it didn't just penalize bad content, it penalized content Google couldn't verify as coming from a real person with real experience. The sites that recovered fastest had three things in common: a named author with credentials, external citations from authoritative sources, and Core Web Vitals in the green. I built this rank risk predictor because every google ranking drop checker I tried gave me 80 checkboxes but no single actionable score. Every signal in this scanner came from analyzing pages before and after major Google updates. The 28 signals aren't invented — they're the patterns that consistently separated the rankings that held from the ones that dropped.”
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, and AI-pattern density 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.