Reasons for a penalty 50 | Beware of quick fixes
Don’t employ anyone that claims to have a magical, foolproof technique that will help to get your site to the top of the SERPs. The only way to rank well is to put in the groundwork over time....
8 Years Ago
Reasons for a penalty 49 | Using a content farm
Over the two years since Panda was phased in, it has been considered poor form to buy content from a ‘farm’ (defined as “sites with shallow or low quality content”). If your content is poorly ...
8 Years Ago
Reasons for a penalty 48 | Prominent ads
Advertising is OK when treated as a secondary concern. Ads should never dominate the page content or play second fiddle to an article or blog....
8 Years Ago
Reasons for a penalty 47 | Content theft
Even if you don’t steal content, someone else could steal yours. This is troublesome, since getting the content removed could involve filing multiple DMCA takedown notices or pursuing sites in cour...
8 Years Ago
Reasons for a penalty 46 | Domain has a bad rep
You may have innocently purchased a domain with a bad history, and that could cause you problems when you try to build a new site around it. Unfortunately this is often a dead end street; you may b…...
8 Years Ago
Reasons for a penalty 45 | Few outbound links
Google wants to see content that references other content of a similar standard. If you don’t share the love, it might look like an attempt to attract traffic unnaturally....
8 Years Ago
