Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. This prospect creates fear for many small businesses who depend on search engine optimization (SEO...
Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments. Link – Search Engine Roundtable Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For...
I have often said that until social figures out "spam" (fake profiles/automation, etc.the way that search engines have figured out link spam, social signals can’t be as relevant as we might like. Social channels have a way to go to perfect their...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Jonas Weber talk spam, bad links, link building, content, social...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. In other words, links that aren't spammy and available just for the taking (no more blog comments, web 2.0 microsites...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Hackers Are Smarter: SEOs, Be Prepared – Search Engine Roundtable Coming Soon: Bing Ads to Launch in Australia and...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. Don’t use spammy blog networks or buy links from shady websites. PPC should be in the marketing portfolio already, as it is an...
Forum spam Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot industry topics and here are the answers that Gregory Cox (GC), David Burgess (DB), Caroline Lyons (CL), David Torchiano (DT), and Derk Doijer...
I lump these together because even though they are quite different is many ways, they are quite similar in that they attract link spam like flies. A continued increase in spam, and more blogs eliminating comments altogether.
Use a good spam scrubbing software to flag bad comments, limit links, and make sure to have some method of human moderation. It can take relatively few instances of comment spam to wind up with a manual penalty.
If you don’t have a clear plan and strategy in place then, you may get a few quick wins, but in the main you are really just creating additional noise and new forms of spam. Google has made it hard for anyone to gain quick results by trying to...
As the saying goes, SPAM just stands for Sites Positioned Above Mine. It’s a war on spam. If you go by the search engine’s rules, when an update comes it is much less likely you will be affected. Black hat SEO is not negative SEO or competitive...
When analyzing the quantity of tweaks and improvements made to Google search functionality based on details culled and classified from the Inside Search blog, Google is actually exerting more effort on query freshness, better short answers, and...
By this time next year, Cutts hopes people are less likely to do link buying, blog comment spam, etc. Then earlier this year Google sent out messages for everything but egregious black hat spam. When SEO becomes an issue is when spam comes into...
While Baidu generally do not acknowledge such changes, the Chinese search giant’s engineer from the anti-spam team known only as "Lee" told webmasters that an update on June 21 has been enforced for anti-spam measures to target poor quality websites.
Rightfully these strategies don't work well anymore (not to be confused with “doesn't work at all” but this is a “best practices” article and not a “here's how to trick and spam Google” article) but content being generated for search engines is...
Whereas even a year ago I would have said that sites appearing high in the SERPs would be good sites to contact, due to the truly amazing amount of spam and hacked sites that appear high up for certain search terms, I'd say you need to visit the...
He explained that Penguin was designed to tackle “the stuff in the middle;” between fantastic, high quality content and spam. Well according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, you must first use as many keywords as possible; the optimal...
The site owner hadn’t appreciated how profoundly these spam tactics went against Google’s mission, which is purportedly to provide the most relevant results to users. Comment spam. Google’s most recent Penguin update has caused a storm of...
