Negative Ranking Factors you should keep away from !

[aymen99]

Well some of these factors may surprise you but experiments and Top SEO experts agreed on those points :
-Long domain names can have negative effect ranking
-slow Loading speed (response time )
-Position of google adsense slots (you i was surprised too )
- % of followed linking pages (is all your links is pointing to the domain or different pages , also is all your links dofollow ? or dofollow and nofollow )


You should really keep away from those bad factors if you are really looking to get the first page of google fast !

best Regards
Aymen

[Alexander Simons]

Originally Posted by aymen99

- % of followed linking pages (is all your links is pointing to the domain or different pages , also is all your links dofollow ? or dofollow and nofollow )

Intresting, could you please explain this point a bit further? Should you have dofollow,nofollow or a combination of the both? How many % of the links schould be external links?

[jgsketch]

Agreed. As for links, diversity is what Google wants. It's an indication of a natural link profile. I remember last year when having just the URL of your site as a backlink would move your site. They quickly adjusted that to tone it down a bit or mix other factors with it. It's still important to have URL links and site name link as anchor text.

[JamesGw]

I'm not sure I completely agree with your last point. Lots of outgoing links will dilute the strength of links pointing to your own inner pages, but I don't think it's a negative ranking factor. It's not going to incur some sort of penalty like slow loading speed will.

I'm also not sure about the long domain name thing, at least within reason. There might be a correlation, but whether or not that indicates causation is another question entirely. It's wholly possible that these long domain names just belong to spammy sites in general which would not rank as high regardless of their domain name.

The speed bit is definitely correct.

[aymen99]

Originally Posted by Alexander Simons

Intresting, could you please explain this point a bit further? Should you have dofollow,nofollow or a combination of the both? How many % of the links schould be external links?

Well when you have all the backlinks linked only to the homepage and also all of them are dofollow it will make google algo think that it may be something wrong with your site ! build your links without worrying about the nofollow part ! mix up things , don't make every link you build just dofollow !
Last point try to spead link building between your pages !

[MisterMunch]

Originally Posted by aymen99

Well when you have all the backlinks linked only to the homepage and also all of them are dofollow it will make google algo think that it may be something wrong with your site ! build your links without worrying about the nofollow part ! mix up things , don't make every link you build just dofollow !
Last point try to spead link building between your pages !

My experience is that most companies who have no concept of SEO has 99 % of their links pointing to their home page. In other words, this is natural.

rel=nofollow will often only be used on places we use to build links, to limit the number of spam links. Links from inside blog posts, personal websites, small business websites etc are often dofollow (as most webmasters never use the rel attribute).

I agree that a ballance is needed, but I don't think it will result in a penalty.
Only commenting on blogs with dofollow links might be a different story. I never bother to check when I build links myself.

[JaySam]

As for this present time, the most negative thing that you may do is to duplicate others content and also creation of a story that is poor written in the eyes of Google as well as the readers.

[iamseo]

On SEOmoz whiteboard friday nice blog post exist on it, I can share link because of my post count. Everyone should watch that video.

[pilatospoonfork]

Agree! Building links from different sources and linking to different pages of your site will have good outcome.

[RevSEO]

While this may seem "obvious" but your outbound links and what you are linking too.

Do you have paid links on your site? Linking to things like gambling, porn or pills? That'll get your rankings gone in little to no time. Why? You control your website and what you link to, linking to bad neighborhoods can get your site to lose its rankings in no time.

[aymen99]

Originally Posted by MisterMunch

My experience is that most companies who have no concept of SEO has 99 % of their links pointing to their home page. In other words, this is natural.

rel=nofollow will often only be used on places we use to build links, to limit the number of spam links. Links from inside blog posts, personal websites, small business websites etc are often dofollow (as most webmasters never use the rel attribute).

I agree that a ballance is needed, but I don't think it will result in a penalty.
Only commenting on blogs with dofollow links might be a different story. I never bother to check when I build links myself.

yeah well it is not a penalty for sure ! we are talking about a ranking decrease ! a penalty is a bit big

[realmaverick]

My experience is that most companies who have no concept of SEO has 99 % of their links pointing to their home page. In other words, this is natural.

It might be natural for inexperienced people to build links all pointing to their homepage, but it's still not a natural link profile. It's a good indicator that you're trying to cheat your way to the top.

[kaedus]

In tests that I've done, my sites that have higher than 50% of the overall links to the domain pointing at inner pages were ranking better overall than my sites that had a much higher percentage of links pointing at the main page. YMMV

[glennforum]

Can you give more information regarding how the position of Google adsense is detrimental to your SEO efforts?

[aymen99]

Originally Posted by glennforum

Can you give more information regarding how the position of Google adsense is detrimental to your SEO efforts?

its not a sure thing yet , whiteboard firday at seomoz talked about this , and i myself got some tests myself,pages filled with adsense blocks rank a bit lower !