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website SEO Negative Ranking Factors

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Check your website for these negative factors:

7. SEO Prohibited Content - Content which violates a local, regional, national or international law (most often child pornography, defamation, or promotion of criminal or terrorist activities) can be banned from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others.

8. SEO Prohibted Code - Code which violates the current standard can cause a website to be banned.

9. SEO Broken Links - Linking to documents or URLs that return 404 errors may negatively impact SEO effort for the linking documents or the website as a whole.

10. SEO Popular Spam Techniques

  • A string of keywords on the web page
  • Hidden text
  • Tiny text
  • Same color text as background colors
  • Doorway pages
  • Redirects
  • Link Farms
  • Cloaking
  • Multiple websites linking on the same IP
  • SEO companies. Google and others will ban the SEO company and its clients.

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