Speaking of tips, I want to tip my hat to David Harry, writing for Searchmetrics, for explaining this issue. If you’re facing some kind of Google-related penalty, there are some things you can do to narrow down what happened. I can’t be exhaustive in a short piece like this, but I can help you start to figure out what happened. Okay, the first thing you should do when you see your traffic is down is check Google Webmaster Tools for your website. You need to find out if Google gave it a manual penalty or otherwise took some kind of manual action against your site. If so, you’ll see a message fr…