What caused it was that SEOs and other people who game search engines believed it was true then Google said, "Hey what a great idea" and now you have it.
Kidding...well kind of. ;)
To be honest with you it most likely doesn't exist and is just a part of ordinary ranking stuff.
All and nothing of that, if you buy the myths at all. To get us started, please point to a reliable source defining the thing you refer to as minus 30 penalty. Forum threads aren't reliable.
Picking an example to show why your question is unanswerable:
>non-301 redirects
What on earth is wrong with meta refreshs, 302 or 307 redirects when used properly? Where does Google state that they penalize you for non 301 redirects at all? There is a good redirect method for every use case; blindly doing only 301 redirects is plain sick (although understandable considering the amount of false SEO advice out there).
Ok, there may not be an official "30 penalty". I didn't see that term anywhere in the Webmaster Guidelines. (but there are 72,000 resulting pages for that term in a google search, so I just didn't make it up.)
I guess my real question is what other penalities, official or unofficial, exist (or to be rumored to exist) besides the ones I typed out in my original post?
> All and nothing of that, if you buy the myths at all. To get us > started, please point to a reliable source defining the thing you > refer to as minus 30 penalty. Forum threads aren't reliable.
> Picking an example to show why your question is unanswerable:>non-301 redirects
> What on earth is wrong with meta refreshs, 302 or 307 redirects when > used properly? Where does Google state that they penalize you for non > 301 redirects at all? There is a good redirect method for every use > case; blindly doing only 301 redirects is plain sick (although > understandable considering the amount of false SEO advice out there).
#4 will probably result in banning expecially if it's extensive. You can look at that as -1001 because teh result si the site,s not in the frist 1000 pages that match the query.
#2, #5 will result in various degrees of poor indexing - and they'd be a consequence of bad site structurer, bad naviagtion, bad organized content , etc. In short: lousy. Low ranking is not penalty here - it's simply what the siet deserves based on content, how it's built and all that.
#3 - sites don't seem to suffer particularly because of that - it's just flagged in search results.Migth keep visitrs away (hopefully anwyay).
#1 may be be a factor in conjunction with the other problems.
> Ok, there may not be an official "30 penalty". I didn't see that term > anywhere in the Webmaster Guidelines. (but there are 72,000 resulting > pages for that term in a google search, so I just didn't make it up.)
> I guess my real question is what other penalities, official or > unofficial, exist (or to be rumored to exist) besides the ones I typed > out in my original post?
> On Sep 21, 12:12 pm, Sebastian wrote:
> > All and nothing of that, if you buy the myths at all. To get us > > started, please point to a reliable source defining the thing you > > refer to as minus 30 penalty. Forum threads aren't reliable.
> > Picking an example to show why your question is unanswerable:>non-301 redirects
> > What on earth is wrong with meta refreshs, 302 or 307 redirects when > > used properly? Where does Google state that they penalize you for non > > 301 redirects at all? There is a good redirect method for every use > > case; blindly doing only 301 redirects is plain sick (although > > understandable considering the amount of false SEO advice out there).
