Did Google Hit Forbes Advisor With A Search Penalty Over Site Reputation Abuse? – Search Engine Roundtable
Google may have hit Forbes Advisor with a manual action, downgrading its rankings over maybe the site reputation abuse policy. Lars Lofgren wrote about this marketplace, he wrote Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host on September 18th and then a week or so later, it looks like it was hit by a Google manual action.
Lars wrote:
In 2020, a completely different company from Forbes partnered with Forbes to run their SEO affiliate business. They created a new company, made it look like it’s part of Forbes (it’s not), and then went to town exploiting every last corner of Google.
They refer to themselves as Forbes Advisor publicly but the official entity is Forbes Marketplace.
He then shared the explosive growth of Forbes Advisor in Google Search.
Then Glenn Gabe shared two charts showing the quick decline of that traffic, only several days after Lars posted his piece.
Glenn Gabe showed on X saying, “not sure if this is related to the spam policy…
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