Today on my blog, I posted about Google Penalties and what they really mean. There are a lot of various reasons why the Google search engine can decide to penalize your website, and not list it as high in the search engine results as it should be listed. Then again, there are also Google search engine penalties that are not really penalties at all. Rather, they are just issues with your website that need to be fixed–so you have a better chance of ranking well in the search engine results. Here is how to understand the types of Google search engine penalties and how to avoid them.