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Basically, the volatility of their algorithm and the opaqueness of it means that any small business that is getting >80% Google-referred traffic is in for a tough time if they're marked as bad. And mistakes happen. Say:

* A canonical tag that shows up due to a bug. Dead.

* Industry terms that appear duplicative to the NLP parser. Dead.

* Too-diverse content. Lower rankings, but functionally dead.

There's tons more, but I'm not a practitioner of SEO.

parent sudont 14 years ago

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