Could it be my business idea in general that is violating quality guidelines?
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Hi Guys:
I have a website where I sell an e-book providing advice for men to be better in the bedroom. All natural, no pills. I myself use all the techniques to improve my own performance, therefore I can write and relate a whole lot to the target audience. It's not a scam, it all works, and I have a very low return rate. I've sold close to 20,000 guides, and all of the testimonials on my site are real. There's no nudity, and the writing is not raunchy in any way.
With that being said, I understand everything sexual has a bad connotation to it, especially businesses.
One technique I provide (pardon the details) is a way to increase the size of the "manhood" with manual techniques. Hard to believe it works, but it does. Nothing extreme, but some men have gained some pretty good size (including myself) And sounds scary but it's actually safe, and improves function rather than harming it.
I've seen the ADWORDS guidelines, and it mentions that providing information that should have scientific backing, or has dubious claims, is enough to drop you from their program (which they did a long time ago). I don't mind about adwords, but I now got a manual penalty for violating "quality guidelines" and it really killed my organic visits. I wonder if google's quality guidelines are similar to adword's guidelines.. or (hopefully) adwords is more strict?
Thing is... I'm not 100% sure what caused the penalty, and it may be for something completely different. I understand most of these quality guideline violation penalties are for bad backlinks (which I believe I have, and I'm in the process of cleaning up), but it didn't tell me the penalty was for "unnatural inbound links" specifically. Oh, I also received one for unnatural outbound links first, about a few weeks before, and cleaned these up.
Another thing I have is a couple of blog posts and one page dedicated to promoting a related product, of which I'm an affiliate. I can imagine these affiliate promotion pages don't "add value" as they say. I'm going to take these down as well. I also had a whole extra set of repeated links at the bottom of the whole site. For instance, I had a set of links to each topic in my guide at the bottom, and right below it they were repeated again. This was something the webdesign guys did and I didn't pay much attention to. Taking these out too.
Think if I fix everything, including bad backlinks, they may revoke the manual action? I used to rank very well before penguin and panda... probably just the links? Hopefully... I would hate to think that the whole idea of my site is looked down on by google, it's a legit site, or that I'll have to remove the "enlargement" stuff (which is by far the topic that draws in the most attention...)
Your wisdom would be much appreciated.
-David
P.S., I've seen other sites with similar topics (enlargement) ranking high on google still....
I have a website where I sell an e-book providing advice for men to be better in the bedroom. All natural, no pills. I myself use all the techniques to improve my own performance, therefore I can write and relate a whole lot to the target audience. It's not a scam, it all works, and I have a very low return rate. I've sold close to 20,000 guides, and all of the testimonials on my site are real. There's no nudity, and the writing is not raunchy in any way.
With that being said, I understand everything sexual has a bad connotation to it, especially businesses.
One technique I provide (pardon the details) is a way to increase the size of the "manhood" with manual techniques. Hard to believe it works, but it does. Nothing extreme, but some men have gained some pretty good size (including myself) And sounds scary but it's actually safe, and improves function rather than harming it.
I've seen the ADWORDS guidelines, and it mentions that providing information that should have scientific backing, or has dubious claims, is enough to drop you from their program (which they did a long time ago). I don't mind about adwords, but I now got a manual penalty for violating "quality guidelines" and it really killed my organic visits. I wonder if google's quality guidelines are similar to adword's guidelines.. or (hopefully) adwords is more strict?
Thing is... I'm not 100% sure what caused the penalty, and it may be for something completely different. I understand most of these quality guideline violation penalties are for bad backlinks (which I believe I have, and I'm in the process of cleaning up), but it didn't tell me the penalty was for "unnatural inbound links" specifically. Oh, I also received one for unnatural outbound links first, about a few weeks before, and cleaned these up.
Another thing I have is a couple of blog posts and one page dedicated to promoting a related product, of which I'm an affiliate. I can imagine these affiliate promotion pages don't "add value" as they say. I'm going to take these down as well. I also had a whole extra set of repeated links at the bottom of the whole site. For instance, I had a set of links to each topic in my guide at the bottom, and right below it they were repeated again. This was something the webdesign guys did and I didn't pay much attention to. Taking these out too.
Think if I fix everything, including bad backlinks, they may revoke the manual action? I used to rank very well before penguin and panda... probably just the links? Hopefully... I would hate to think that the whole idea of my site is looked down on by google, it's a legit site, or that I'll have to remove the "enlargement" stuff (which is by far the topic that draws in the most attention...)
Your wisdom would be much appreciated.
-David
P.S., I've seen other sites with similar topics (enlargement) ranking high on google still....
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