Comment spam. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Only rely on desktop search? Relying on any one tactic or factor within search engines is fine in the short term, but in the long term will assuredly...
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 multiple links are removed or changed within a short timeframe this is a strong signal...
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! Both saw massive search visibility drops (though it's not clear whether they have taken an equivalent traffic hit). He examined the content and link profiles of 13 sites that lost traffic and...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? These are actual titles from article in the top search results for [content marketing and SEO]. It always has been, and always will be – well, at least until the search engines don't use...
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. These factors include modern design and content, usability and conversion, and search and social media.
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). Filter leads and prioritize actions based on levels of content...
He believes that the changes will really make a difference with the quality of the search results, as well as impact the amount of spam that is showing up. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about...
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. Search has moved beyond just finding keywords, but it still doesn’t read all these billions of...
Social channels have a way to go to perfect their algorithms so that they can, as the search engines have before them, account for spam. I have often said that until social figures out "spam" (fake profiles/automation, etc.the way that search...
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. Content marketing has grown in importance in today's search environment and even the best marketers know that just because you publish it...
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? Those salad days, as fun and easy as they were, are the reason why we're creating a new legacy, entirely separate from the legacy of spam.
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...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such...
And while there have been many examples of this being badly executed, with lots of site owners and SEO professionals complaining of injustice, it is clear that web spam engineers have collected a lot of information over recent months and have...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Facebook cites bug in search history tool disappearance – CNET Google Shopping integrations in universal search...
