website SEO Negative Ranking Factors

Negative SEO Ranking Factors ( 1 of 2)

Check your website for these negative factors:

1. Keyword Spamming - Stuffing, stacking or overusing key terms in an attempt to appear relevant for terms/phrases may negatively affect rankings.

2. Delivery Disparities - One of the most penalized tactics used is separation of content delivery. This can be done by user-agent, IP address, geography or other factors and involved delivering one set of content to one user and another to others. This is called cloaking.

3. Duplicate Content - Duplicating a large portion of a website or page content onto another page can be harmful to one or both sources.This action will lower rankings.

4. Hosting the Same Content Issues - A highly dangerous problem with large websites is canonical issues. These issues stem from duplicates of data existing on multiple URLs that are controlled by the same entity.

5. Link Spamming - Whether by automated blog or guest book spamming that are stored by automated systems may hurt ranking abilities of websites or individual pages.

6. Link to Unrelated websites - The outbound links on a website could indicate a low quality document, or worse, participation in manipulation or link schemes. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have been known to harshly penalize these tactics - even banning some websites on a first offense.