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Published Sept. 26, 2022
By
Mark Walker-Ford Managing Director at Red Website Design
Are your website’s Google rankings going the wrong way? Want to learn what factors could’ve had a negative effect on your SEO?
The team from SEMrushshare the things that can hurt your rankings in this infographic.
Here are a few that make their list:
- Low quality links
- Duplicate content
- Internal link changes
- Copyright violation
- Recent Google update
- A rise in competition
Check out the infographic for more detail.
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A version of this post was first published on the Red Website Design blog.
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