What percentage of bannings are hand bans vs. algorithmic collateral damage?
• Will the search engines admit to doing hand editing for quality control? • How can you best prevent a site from incurring the wrath of a banning while still pushing the bleeding edge of search engine optimization? • What are the best practices for reinclusion if your important or branded domain gets popped I don’t blame the search engines for being ambigious about bannings. It is a sticky subject in terms of mainstream media, and offers no benefits for revealing to those trying to manipulate their results. They want to maintain the impression that all the decisions are made algorithmically by computers. The simple fact is that there will always be some level of human interaction since a human programmed that machine to begin with. If the SE’s told SEO’s EXACT guidelines for most of the criteria, we would all push it right up to that limit. That’s why there is gray territory that they allow us to flounder in, and have to give somebody a good slap in public once they stray too far into
