SEO Industry: Police Thyself? If we don't want Big Daddy Google to continue to try to police our space, we need to start controlling the corner and the conversation, on a national level. Not moderating my comment spam might just mean I have a small...
If you use a white hat tactic, it means you staying within the terms and conditions set by your police officer (your chosen search engine, which will be Google for 99 percent of you). Because the police officer isn’t looking for you; the police...
Panda update put a dent in it, but do we have to rely on Google to constantly police us? If we're seen as a group who huddles to protect our own rather than proactively identifying and discrediting spam and fake content, we'll be held in contempt...
Below we'll discuss the less-spammy applications of +1 marketing that an average business could engage in proudly (or at least, without looking over their shoulder to make sure the Google+ police aren’t watching).
During the Spam Police session at SMX, Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Sasi Parthasarathy both confirmed this. One Man's Spam Is Another's Good Result: Google's New Approach To Spam by Frank Watson & Thom Craver
People Search Google For Dialing The Police. Google search and search engine spam - Official Google Blog Social Media Links and SEO -- Spam Ye Not! Ways to Repurpose Content to Attract Links to Your Website - Small Business Trends
Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, but the Australian Federal Police won't prosecute, saying the chances of a successful prosecution are "low. Google Spam Czar Matt Cutts Calling For Questions...
However, you never know how long they'll work for or when/if you will be busted by the spam police. They also have a pretty deep, content-rich Web site with a load of backlinks and an SEO friendly design/architecture.
This would be like trying to police Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park and throw out people who are cursing. But could you imagine trying to police this growing mob? I recently received some spam messages from someone through LinkedIn who wanted me to...
I want to scream to the spam police at the major search engines. Duplicate Content Revisited As an SEO, I've always believed that you should build meaningful, useful Web sites and help promote the content to establish links.
Using standards to police ourselves translates to predictable results. As I said there, I don't think there is a need to police standards, more to outline them so customers can have an idea of what to look for as well as new people in our space...
In an ideal world, social search engines would police themselves from spam the same way social bookmarking sites and networks do—by counting on their user base. The second thing to look at is the trustworthiness of the results, or—to be more frank...
Rules Require Effective Spam Police: Debates among marketers of what's search spam continue, but the search engines themselves aren't exactly helpful in clarifying things. In To Stop Spamming: Turns out that some types of search spam might get...
Rules Require Effective Spam Police - From 2004, revisits how search engines have various spam rules but also how they don't disclose if someone's been yanked from an index, something that would probably help site owners.
The list changes over time, based on events such as the recent police shootings in the southern town of If you're removing material from search results for various reasons -- spam, government censorship, whatever -- disclose that everywhere, not...
They all employ legions of "spam police" who work hard to try to keep spam out of the indexes, or eliminate it if it manages to creep past the junk-detection algorithms. How Long Does It Take For Search Engines To Remove Spam Sites?
New "Link Police" in Google Algorithm? Has Google finally said 'enough is enough' with link spam? Clients have been yammering for this since the whole 'content network' started. AdWords Allows Site Specific Targeting Search Engine Watch Forums
Require Effective Spam Police article) Cloaking is not necessarily spam or misleading, as I wrote to great depth in my Ending The Debate Over Cloaking article of Feb. If cloaking alone (independent of WHAT is being cloaked) were spam and...
Not much, fortunately, but we occasionally have to police out the irrelevant link or the link hidden in a period or comma. Bloggers seem increasingly upset at the comment spam they have to deal with, something driven primarily by those who seek...
Questions For Yahoo Spam/Content Police? Those are the people who among other things try to automatically determine what's search engine spam. In addition to meta search results provided by partners Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and a number of paid...
