Google will now include example URLs in their emails warning webmasters about manual spam actions. There are many cases where webmasters know they have manual web spam action taken against their site, but they can't figure out what is triggering...
Comment spam. When you are obtaining references (and links) from a variety of sources all linked to your other marketing channels, while creating interesting and meaningful content, that goes beyond just good SEO.
For example, you might have a worksheet for directories, another for comment spam, another for article sites, etc. In addition, you can use regex to test for the presence of content on a webpage as Deep Crawl traverses a website.
Google spam detection is all about patterns in your link profile. Sometimes you trade more than just the good content on your website with a link partner. When you've put a lot of effort in acquiring links to your website, you want to make sure...
Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from the competition, and has been since launching in 2010. Blekko founder Rich Skrenta said the new search results empower users to get to the best content for any given query...
Comment spam. Essentially, both sites scream "spam! He examined the content and link profiles of 13 sites that lost traffic and rankings after Google deployed Penguin 2.0 last week. The Myth of Content Marketing, the New SEO & Penguin 2.0
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...
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 is good for news aggregators and other sites that reuse content appropriately and have been hit...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. SEO and content is a core part of the design and build process. These factors include modern design and content, usability and...
We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore. Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. It doesn't help anyone, and it's really just a slightly more...
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). Marketing Programs – associated offers and content to support sales.
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
The Good Ol' Way #5: Ad Spam Keywords were stuffed in title tags, meta tags, navigation, content, anchor text, URLs, domains, if there was a place to add a keyword they did it. At first the algorithm couldn't pick this up and people would stuff...
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. What is being done to detect and remove results from larger sites when they don't have unique...
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. As they get bigger, they must deal with a tsunami of...
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: “Suspicious Link: This link redirects to another site, it may link to spam or...
Users of BOTW can be assured that the sites they find are great resources, with no spam or irrelevant sites. Best of the Web, a directory of all the content on the web, turns 19 on April 20. Every day, our team of editors scours the web and places...
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? We were forced to use our brains to build links, and that's where the legacy of spam started to slow down. Penguin kicked spam and anchor text abuse in the knee.
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 signals, and more. Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam...
