As mentioned above, "the confirmation of Google's sixth-position penalty" - after reading the article, I immediately checked the websites I had previously worked on and once again confirmed the existence of Google's negative sixth penalty.
Here are the characteristics of websites that have been hit by Google’s negative sixth penalty:
1. The penalized websites are all old sites with a long history.
2. These websites’ keyword rankings had been consistently in the first position for a long time; some had been stably ranked in the top six positions but were then demoted to a fixed sixth position.
3. The keywords affected by the penalty are usually the most important ones.