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How to overcome Google's minus 30 filter

Friday, March 23, 2007

This is the Google filter identified last October. This filter is for down ranking web pages in their result pages. I noted that many webmasters in online forums reported their experience on this aspect and still going on. Google applies this automated filter to some websites those are practicing spammy SEO techniques. The result is those websites downgraded by 30 positions.

Here are some quotes:

"I just got my site rank #31 on its own domain name and bunch of keywords/phrases I usually watch were bumped from #1 to precisely #31. Those #2 through #10 are sort of all over the map but generally within the first 60 results."

"I have this penalty on 2 sites and on both cases the site was hand checked by someone at Google and the next day it was dropped ~30 spots on all keywords. First site was 100% white hat, second site had too many affiliate links."

"I have a similar situation on my site. It's a PR 8 site that used to rank for just about anything I wanted. Then I added several hundred thin affiliate pages and all my rankings dropped from page 1 to page 4. I still rank #1 for my site name though. I also still rank high for specific searches in "quotes". I'm not sure what caused the penalty."

There are many things that can trigger this type of penalty. The only way to overcome this is to remove the spam elements from the site. You may verify whether the following techniques/methods that applied to your website:

1) JavaScript redirection
It might be considered as spamming. Rather than using this use 301 redirection by changing your .htaccess file. Read article

2) Guestbook/blog spamming
If you try to get links from guestbooks and blogs by spamming them then Google may applied this filter to your website.

3) Doorway pages OR Duplicate Pages
Remove those pages, Google doesn't like doorway pages. If you must use special landing pages for PPC ads and other ads, make sure that these pages cannot be spidered by Google and other search engines. You can use robots.txt to do that.

Try to remove the above spam techniques from your site. As this minus 30 filter is an automated filter, you will probably get your ranking back after some days.

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Comments:

Pkshukla, Friday, April 17, 2009

Good article on SEO and Meta Tags -

Meta tags are not visible when someone browses your web page but the search engines read these Meta tags alone and decide the place of a web page on its search result pages. Meta tags have been used really very un-carefully by the spammers, if we commit to use them methodically with the due respect, I hope, we should be able to create ever increasing web traffic on our sites.

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