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Dec 2024
26m 46s

The Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy:...

Edward Sturm
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E533: The Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy was rolled out and repeatedly updated to stop parasite search engine optimization.

Major publishers were violating Google rules in droves, doing affiliate Parasite SEO, and making hundreds of millions of dollars.

This is everything that’s going on with Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy, what the takeaways are, how the policy can be avoided, and how the SEO game is changing.

Links in the episode:

The Google Site Reputation Abuse [Parasite SEO] Policy: https://parasiteseo.com/google-site-reputation-abuse-policy/

Credit to https://x.com/Charles_SEO

Five-Dimensional Reddit Parasite SEO: https://youtu.be/4e60q8Uh-yY

Google Doesn’t Want You to Know This Is Possible: https://youtu.be/XJecGYJk3mE

How to Do Great Work: https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

00:00 Introduction 01:27 Understanding the Site Reputation Abuse Policy 02:19 Forbes and the Abuse of Authority 04:16 Manual Actions and Algorithmic Delays 05:13 International SEO and Algorithmic Challenges 05:45 Forbes' Response and Google's Updated Policy 10:57 Devil's Advocate: The Fairness of SEO 14:00 What Can We Learn from the Policy? 17:06 Modern Parasite SEO Strategies 20:41 The Long Game in SEO 24:09 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

#parasiteseo #blackhatseo #seotips #searchengineoptimization

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