As long as violations of data protection laws are punishable by discount rates, the enforcement of data protection laws in a digital world with its high potential for abuse will be all but impossible," he said.
Penguin kicked spam and anchor text abuse in the knee. How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? The industry's reputation affects all of us, and the question demands an answer.
They created a world in which abuse wasn't only possible, but that was even very easy to abuse in the beginning. First and foremost, I don't work for Google. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of...
We continually find new link building strategies, and then start to abuse them. When the abuse becomes too obvious, Google is forced to take measures. Here are the Meetup groups that will be converging on SES New York:
From abuse of money terms to becoming obsessed with percentages, anchor text is a very, um, fluid thing for a lot of SEOs. 287 pages, all about link building…be still my heart! Paddy Moogan is a well-known link builder who works for Distilled.
This is the piece that can further limit the rampant abuse of links, while playing an important part in future ranking algorithms. As such, it reflects my opinion of the direction search is going, not where it necessarily is today.
They are monetizing this kind of business, the strong position they have in the general search market and this is not only a dominant position, I think – I fear – there is an abuse of this dominant position," Almunia told the Financial Times.
As with any new idea or product, the initial iterations were easy to abuse, fake and duplicate. The Mayan calendar ended this month. Contrary to the “predictions,” it wasn't the end of the world, just the end of Mayan content.
Some other exemplary applications of the techniques described herein can include, identifying website/e-commerce users by their behavior, identifying possible criminals or terrorists based on specific behaviors from a database of activities...
It’s relevant, it doesn’t abuse hashtags, it’s brief and to the point. This tactic requires balance, though; there is a fine line between promoting relevant content and hashtag spamming. Whether your tweets are promoted or organic, use this guide...
If you’re thinking this might just be open to abuse, you’re probably right. Google has a stringent set of guidelines governing their News accreditation and those who abuse it, will lose it. SEOs are going to have to start including keyword meta...
While you can’t specify the actual pages that you want to display in the sitelinks (that would be far too open to abuse), you can specify which pages you want removed. If you don’t have a Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) account, then you need to go...
The other possibility is that Android malware has become much more prevalent and because of its ubiquity, there is sufficient motivation for spammers to abuse the platform. Google has lashed out at Microsoft researcher Terry Zink, claiming there is...
Hacked sites may abuse rich snippets, in which case Google may demote sites abusing them or take them away. Well according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, you must first use as many keywords as possible; the optimal keyword density...
TF1 sued YouTube and Dailymotion back in 2008 for intellectual property abuse, seeking damages for alleged copyright infringement on sports and movies that were uploaded to YouTube by users. Google has no obligation to “police (YouTube) content...
Abuse-resistant method of registering user accounts with an online service Have a look. Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic – Explains the difference between penalties, filers and dampeners (as well as things you can do).
Oracle had originally been seeking billions of dollars in damages from Google over the alleged abuse of Java code in the development of the Android mobile operating system. Oracle may only win pocket change in its long-running Java battle with...
Account review aims to determine if a new advertiser is truly new, or is simply a repeat offender trying to abuse Google’s advertising system. A couple of weeks ago, Google was facing scrutiny from lawmakers over their human trafficking ads policy.
Any objections I’ve seen over how easy a straight anchor text flag is for competitors to abuse have been pooh-poohed, as in, “People should just focus on their own sites,” or “No one is going to waste their time doing that.
So that’s the sort of thing where we try to make the GoogleBot smarter, we try to make our relevance more adaptive so that people don’t do SEO—we handle that—and then we also start to look at the people who sort of abuse it, whether they throw too...
