<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/75e5223c-49b6-4145-8b22-17424efa6524/1509F9C8-9190-4FAC-811B-DA22306728EA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google" href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google" style="font-size: 11px;">www.seomoz.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google"><H1>Page-Level Algorithmic Penalties On The Rise From Google</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google"><DIV> Unfortunately they're elusive to tie down. Since you get penalties (generally) for doing something wrong in Google's eyes they're not very forthcoming about what they do to you when they catch you. If they had their way I'm sure they'd like to just say BAD STUFF in their guidelines. As it is however penalties typically fall into a couple of distinct categories and Rand has a flowchart for determining whether you have a penalty or not. This flowchart has historically worked very well and covers the vast majority of penalties (thanks Rand!):</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.seomoz.org/img/1B7BFB65-5256-48AC-BCD5-7554340D0BC8" alt="penalty flow chart" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1509F9C8-9190-4FAC-811B-DA22306728EA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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