Google 17-item Spam Policy Auditor — 8 hidden-violation classes | SEO-GEO
5 of Google's most damaging spam-policy violations require parsing raw HTML, outlink rel attributes and inline JS — rendering-based crawlers miss them all.
In 2024 Google explicitly flagged #12 site reputation abuse, #14 thin affiliate, and #15 sneaky redirects as top sources of manual actions. Many SaaS, e-commerce, and media sites lost indexation over third-party content. This tool reads raw HTML to detect those hidden violations.
What can you check or produce?
- Scans the 8 hidden-violation classes inside Google's 17-item policy
- Batch audit up to 10 URLs
- Pure edge function scraping, no login
- 100-point score + critical/high/medium/low severity
- Each finding links to the official Google policy + actionable fix
- Quantified outlink dofollow ratio, sponsored/ugc/nofollow check
How should you interpret results and choose the next action?
In 2024 Google explicitly flagged #12 site reputation abuse, #14 thin affiliate, and #15 sneaky redirects as top sources of manual actions. Many SaaS, e-commerce, and media sites lost indexation over third-party content. This tool reads raw HTML to detect those hidden violations. Unlike Lighthouse / Screaming Frog which only see the rendered page, we parse <a rel> attributes, inline JS redirects, and display:none + text combos, giving you actionable fixes with the official Google policy links. Pure edge function, User-Agent: SEO-GEO-SpamAuditBot/1.0, compliant scraping, zero AI cost.
Frequently asked questions
Why not detect all 17 items?
AI content, plagiarism, machine translation, keyword stuffing and 5 other items are already covered by Information Gain Plan, Content Compliance Check etc. This tool focuses on the 8 hardest-to-self-detect hidden violations.
Scoring?
Start at 100, deduct critical -25 / high -15 / medium -8 / low -3. ≥85 = A, ≥70 = B, ≥50 = C, <30 = F.
Free?
Completely free, no signup, pure scraping with no AI cost.
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