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