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Site Reputation Abuse

A Google policy targeting third-party content hosted on authoritative sites for SEO leverage.

Site Reputation Abuse (also called Parasite SEO) involves third parties publishing content on authoritative domains to leverage their rankings. Google's 2024 policy update against site reputation abuse targets coupon, casino, loan and other third-party content on news and reference sites. Affected pages can be deindexed without harming the host site overall.

Related Entries

Google Spam Policies

Google's published rules defining content and link practices that violate guidelines.

Parasite SEO

Publishing content on high-authority third-party domains to leverage their rankings.

Helpful Content System

Google's ranking system targeting content created primarily for people, not search engines.

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