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So for those of you that think youre being very clever about inserting a few extra keywords in your content definitely consider it from an outsiders point of view. a surprise but many people feel that unless someone is doing a direct comparison they can get away with stealing or borrowing content. Whether youre copying or scraping the content Google asks the raters to look specifically at whether the content adds value or not. They also instruct them on how to find stolen content using Google searches and the Wayback Machine.


Abandoned We still come across sites where the forum is filled with Europe Cell Phone Number List spam where theres no moderation on blog comments so theyre brimming with autoapproved pharmaceutical spam or where theyve been hacked. Even if the content seems great this still signals an untrustworthy site. If the site owner doesnt care enough to prevent it why should a visitor care enough to consider it worthy Scam sites Whether a site is trying to solicit extensive personal information is for a known scam or is a phishing page these are all signs of a lowestquality page.




Also included are pages with suspicious download links. If youre offering a download make sure it comes across as legitimate as possible or use a thirdparty verified service for offering downloads. Mobilefriendly If you havent taken one of the many hints from Google to make your site mobile friendly know that this will hurt the perceived quality of your site. In fact Google tells their raters to rate any page that is not mobilefriendly a page that becomes unusable on a mobile device at the lowest rating. In this latest version of the quality guidelines all ratings are now being done on a mobile device.