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    My site is in breach of Google quality guidelines. How do I fix it?

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      • SEOAndy
        SEOAndy last edited by

        Personally I would say get rid of the bad links first, this is usually what Google clamps down on, a lot of internal links on your homepage isn't great, but isn't something I think Google would penalise for, rather they would just no rank you very highly in the first place.

        Like I said, get rid of the links, see if that solves anything, if not, dig a bit deeper but priority would be the bad links.

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        • firstconversion
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          Point 3.....

          Likely its specific pages that are penalised. 410 those pages and put the content on a new page. Do it 1 keyword at a time and measure the impact

          Stephen

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            alinkfred @firstconversion last edited by

            Hi Stephen Thanks for your reply. If the problem was bad links would google not have mentioned that in the rejection communication, as I have seen in other posts I will certainly take your advice though and 401 a page or two to see the impact. Fred

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              Hi Fred

              Post the message text if you can

              Stephen

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