A minimum of one backlink

- You must have at a minimum of one website linking to you (ensuring search engines are
aware of this link) to keep yourself in search engines index.

Server IP Address

- If spam websites have been hosted on the same server as yours, search engines may
devalue your website.
- Try to get a dedicated unique IP Address for your website.

Traffic Buying / Link Schemes

- Build your traffic and links up naturally.
- Avoid traffic buying and any type of link scheme.
- If search engines discover that you have affiliate with any of these services, you may be
penalized.

Links from bad websites

- Links from bad websites cannot necessarily affect your ranking.
- If your website exchanges links with bad websites, you may get devalued.

Buying Links

- Search engines dislike websites that buy unrelated links to boost ranking.
- Avoid earning a sudden boost in backlinks.
- Avoid backlinks from highly respected unrelated websites.

Server Reliability and Uptime

- Ensure your website is active as much as possible.
- Search engines may remove your website from their index if they find it unavailable at
the time of crawling.