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...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. The Search Engine Watch website is a great example of modern design with creative, yet simple elements, in it's navigation...
One of the common misconceptions of marketing automation is that it’s strictly for B2B, and is essentially an email system pre-loaded with time-released messages (or even spam). Lead Generation – associated advertising, social media, word of mouth...
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...
We know for certain that they couldn’t fix the link spam issue alone and so they needed to create a “game” scenario that ensured social cooperation. Google has never had an issue with the quality of search engine results pages (SERPs) per se.
In fact going throw some controversy in the mix, if any other site did this, Google would be called “blackhatting” “scraping” or many terms usually reserved for “SPAM”, but this is Google and whatever you think of it, there is no getting away from...
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 play, such as if you go overboard buying links, doing comment spam links, or keyword stuffing.
However, much of the maturation that has occurred in the areas of spam and bot prevention is highly adaptable to IPv6. Russian search engine leader Yandex will support IPv6 on Yandex.com, which is visited mostly by users outside of Russia and the...
What is likely screaming “spam” to Google is a closer look at where these links are coming from: unrelated sites, comments, and more than 7,000 are coming from one domain. A post earlier this week, “SEO, Why You Are Doing it Wrong,” attempted to...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Penguin is aimed to remove web spam and combat what they view as black hat. In terms of SEOmoz itself, we've been working on some research around spam for a while now, but it's still a long ways off.
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Sadly the work of old is now catching up with many webmasters as spammy, low value links are pounced on by the Web Spam team. Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live
This week, we finally learned about the new Google webspam algorithm, an all-out offensive aimed at detecting spammy tactics such as keyword stuffing, link spam, and spun content. After all, high-quality content made the Google search engine a...
What is the SEO definition of SPAM? Google's spam team suggests that those using some kind of farmer routine to generate their own Bamboo files for multiple sites will eventually be caught by another future update, whose name is undisclosed at this...
Most SEOs aspire to be genius inbound marketers, eschewing 'the tricks' and take it upon themselves to promote ethical awareness around search engine spam. Article Picture Credits: iRobots.txt by @RichardFergie, Spam's Labyrinth by @LordManley...
As Cutts outlined in the launch of Webmaster Tools back in August 2006 - WMT allows sites to discover crawl errors, set the redirect for domains' www and non-www and even warns of spam penalties - and that was six years ago.
The detection of spam either makes certain efforts less effective or damages a site entirely. The certainty with which spam is seen as intentional creates a sliding slope. Performing tests on search engine algorithms can help you stay current on...
Google has access to a wide number of signals regarding user behavior that they haven't had in previous spam battles. Doubling up on the Spam This spam +1 networks provide a signal similar to the link profiles Google’s dealt with over the years.
Google's spam team suggests that those using some kind of farmer routine to generate their own Bamboo files for multiple sites will eventually be caught by another future update, whose name is undisclosed at this time.
Google's smaller (and to an extent forgotten) January update "launched a redesigned document-level classifier" to ID "spammy words" like you'd find in spam blog comments. A key point from Mike Grehan, Global VP Content, SES, Search Engine Watch...
So curious, Horowitz started to reach out to the numerous people at Google she had worked with -- AdSense, where their partnership with Google had made both companies a good deal of money -- their niched specific site has a great online audience...
