Bad neighborhood link found Search Engine Guideline

Description

Some search engines may penalize links to bad neighborhoods. Three or more hyphens in the domain name are used as a bad neighborhood indicator by search engines. Make sure these links are marked with rel=nofollow to avoid affecting your Google ranking.

Applicable standards

Change history

  • 5.28 Dec 2017 Removed.
  • 4.1 Aug 2010 Fixed false positive.
  • 3.5 Dec 2009 Fixed false positive.
  • 2.0 Dec 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoSpamBadNeighbourhoodHyphens