Google can use different methods to determine that this is happening, but usually you will see it when users leave gibberish, links to sites that sell things, profile links or multiple links per comment that lead to sites seem as spammy or...
This could explain the "baked into the index" comment. I think it's entirely possible that the Disavow Links tool is nothing more than a new feature added to the original Spam reporting tool. Just like the Spam tool, nothing happens after a single...
Comment spam. Tired of Penguin 2.0 related posts yet? Every major Google algorithm update is followed by weeks and weeks of posts addressing the specifics of the particular change. Who got hit the worst?
For example, you might have a worksheet for directories, another for comment spam, another for article sites, etc. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst.
Comment spam. Essentially, both sites scream "spam! Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts promised the new generation of Penguin would go deeper, and it seems to have lived up to that promise. Here are some early findings from sites hit by...
The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the content marketing world with an even steeper rise in blog comment spam, links, and dubious and irrelevant requests to webmasters and blog owners to consider crap guest posts.
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? Why Content Marketing is the New SEO". Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO? Content Marketing is the New SEO " These are actual titles from article in the top search...
Also, anyone wanting to post a comment will need a Google+ account. Your Links On Pinterest May Be Stopping Traffic In Its Tracks – Marketing LandIf you're using a URL shortener on Pinterest, beware it may take users to a page that says...
For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. I thought to myself, was he using comment spam to gain exact match anchor text links? As soon as I saw that, my first thought jumped to comment spam...
Although there has been no official announcement or comment by the social media giant, the long-rumored idea of Facebook incorporating hashtags – the ubiquitous # symbol used on Twitter to make certain keywords or topics searchable – gathered...
If I'm visiting a forum, answers site or blog and there's a thread discussing great food in new city, it's going to be easier and more effective to leave a comment, noting that you're a local and visit many restaurants and wrote a series of...
It’s easy, and it’s so simple that even Great Aunt Matilda could comment “Brick” or “Lodi” and feel pleased with herself that she accomplished something that was claimed to be “not easy”. Well, if enough people flag them as spam, then perhaps...
Tons of directories, article submission sites, comment spam, link networks, etc. When I first begin speaking with companies that have been impacted, my goal is to quickly identify exactly what happened over time, so I can begin the process of...
Also, “if a business accepts paper comment cards it might be tempting to collect them and ‘digitize’ them by posting the reviews on Google+ Local,” Google says in its advice for SEOs. An update to Google’s spam detection algorithms will grow the...
We used to comment on blog posts and in forums mainly, but now we have all these other ways of expressing our opinions, bonding with others, and promoting ourselves. Tons of spammy template sites are built in order to capture rankings and traffic...
There are close to zero scenarios where I can see a link drop in a forum or blog comment as having any signal value to a search engine. I lump these together because even though they are quite different is many ways, they are quite similar in that...
It can take relatively few instances of comment spam to wind up with a manual penalty. Comment Spam One of the newer penalties that people are finding in their inbox is one for comment spam. Use a good spam scrubbing software to flag bad comments...
Now you may see your search rankings significantly lowered for just not watching your comment spam or for having too many ads on a page above the fold. Not moderating my comment spam might just mean I have a small team of people, not that the...
Finally, webmasters were simply getting burned out at all the link removal requests they were receiving, even on links that were already nofollowed (such as blog comment links) or for links on websites that weren't penalized in any way, because...
The goal of the update was to clean up link profiles relying on heavily sculpted exact match anchor text (sites where 60 percent of anchor text was for “money” keywords) and comment spam, among other tactics, to artificially inflate search rankings.
