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Guideline 12: Tags are spammy

dd32 opened this issue · comments

Currently the spam guideline includes this:

Spammy behavior includes (but is not limited to) unnecessary affiliate links, tags to competitors plugins, use of over 12 tags total, blackhat SEO, and keyword stuffing.

This is intended on being an example, but the simple fact is that we have not allowed more than 5 tags be used in a long time.
This complicates it further, as I believe this is one of the only places we address number of tags.

Perhaps we should be renaming this to something like use of highly specific or unique tags instead.

For example, I'd consider these to be spammy, as it's highly unique or overly duplicative.

  • Tags: Best Black Hat SEO Plugin
  • Tags: black hat, blackhat, seo, seo plugin, best blackhat seo plugin

The other option is to just drop it back to something like use of many tags, not specifying a count.