Hardly the type of content you’d expect to see on a wedding site. “Can you name a city in New Jersey that doesn’t have an E in its name? It’s not easy…” So say the multitude of recent Facebook posts that have inundated the feed of pretty much...
The strategy of spamming wire services with sales pitches or informative articles under a press release header has been recognized, and Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has said in not to expect much power from these types of links just...
This tactic requires balance, though; there is a fine line between promoting relevant content and hashtag spamming. This participant tweets interesting facts and is sure to respond to questions about the content.
Meaning, not spamming, not violating, but just not understanding how the algorithm operates can result in a loss of visitors to your site. Whether you write spammy content or purchase the content or are just the spammy author?
My overall perception of the Penguin update was that it was designed primarily to attack unnatural link practices and web spamming techniques, as well as a host of less focused topics such as AdSense usage and internal linking queues.
Just because a site's scraping content or spamming doesn't necessarily mean that they're part of a link network. We're looking for five to 10 sites with spammy content, lots of ads, and other poor quality giveaways.
I was going to say the widely used term “keyword-rich” but that is often misunderstood and usually results in the spamming of site URLs. Can our site users find our most important content easily? Answering these questions helps to create ideas on...
This is not blog comment spamming, this is engaging in a conversation relevant to your website's topic. You should also consider allowing users to +1 your content on a page by page basis. Share informative and relative content and link to your...
Penguin’s penalization of sites who have been spamming aims to improve the quality of the SERP for searchers. Factor in Google’s authorship mark-up, which will increase your visibility in the SERP (given that your content is awesome too).
So, creating links in your user profile for the intent of needlessly pushing your own site is tantamount to spamming the community. Nonetheless, as far as I could tell, whilst the content they were putting up was not of a particularly high quality...
Most SEOs claim that spamming is only increasing relevance for queries not related to the topic(s) of the page. Please note that according to our definition, all types of actions intended to boost ranking, without improving the true value of a page...
This doesn't mean that content spamming or link farming will somehow become acceptable (it won’t). Content is published information. The Continued Evolution of Content Into Data Page’s anecdote is a direct reference to Google’s increasing focus on...
It's no longer the case that simply spamming your website with the phrase “cheap car insurance” will get you a front-page listing. Opinions add a new element to a page – particularly on a blog, where it's less usual to be entirely objective about...
Anything that has a higher chance of success than getting links from spamming people. In the other, there’s a much deeper kind of madness that comes from the idea that content development is a pointless investment.
Really, unless you’re a brain dead spamming SEO, we should be chasing most of those anyway. Quality Content If you’re creating engaging sites/content then by and large you should already be in a position to take advantage of a lot of the factors...
In fact, there’s one firm that is driving me absolutely crazy because they’re spamming a client of mine with emails. Who’s going to write the content? There aren’t enough resources on the client’s side (or not enough money to outsource) for...
Fans Feel You’re Spamming Them But declining engagement has less to do with brand fatigue in general than with marketers doing a bad job and shoving boring [content] at consumers. Do you understand the types of content your users like to share?
When I say “high risk,” I’m not talking about the kind of high risk associated with the possibility of being banned/penalized in the search engines for such tactics as hacking, cloaking, spamming, etc.
You don't want to turn off too many people by spamming overtly so you'd have to be careful just to sell “advertising” within the relevant categories, preferably without affiliate links. Now you'll 301 the actual eBook page to the URL you’ve been...
The Incentive for Google+ to Allow Spamming and Abuse Let’s look at some of the Google+ features more prone to abuse and why Google may be tempted to leave the gate open for a while, allowing limited spamming.
