Just don't be the guy that sends a generic spam e-mail to a hundred people introducing yourself and raving for 250 words of narcissism. The festival is packed with sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO...
The term, when search, leads to sites that contain viruses and even more spam. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions has introduced a somewhat controversial feature into...
Those "rocket science" methods you guys used to do SEO are called spam now. There are plenty of sessions about them - try "Video Search Engine Optimization: 2009 and Beyond". It seems that being controversial is a major way to get new business in...
Today, we'll explore three common practices that can be used quite legitimately, yet still could look like spam to search engines. The search engine visible text is used as the input to sIFR, which then renders that exact text in a much nicer font.
Without some guidelines we leave our industry in the "Wild Web" stage that has been there from the beginning when porn and spam was the major effective marketing areas. The ever controversial Michael Martinez of SEO Theory suggests we need to drop...
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the...
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine...
Adam Lasnik on Paid LinksGoogle's spam fighter provided Eric Enge with some insight into Google's thinking on paid links, what their objectives are, and how they view Nofollow. Eric Ward Podcast on Link BuildingEric Enge and Eric Ward recently...
Though we've noticed in some high-level search engine research and patents, there is a school of thought that will be willing to label pages and sites as spam, period, most issues are not as clear-cut.
Cutts led off by highlighting two of the key types of search engine index spam they're fighting these days at Google. Not leaving the world of spam, but turning to academic study of it, Sherman asked Cutts about a group that he belongs to that...
To do this, we need to have a comprehensive index that is as spam-free as possible. The Webmasters who do not follow this policy range from those who are black hat spam artists that will try any trick to improve their rankings, to those who bend...
More sophisticated inducements to policing quality (the wiki ethos, essentially) along with paid editorial controls and improving algorithmic methods, may well keep spam at bay in the future, and hopefully, provide incentives for the creators and...
New Search Patent Filings: Identifying Web Spam and Adult Images Tim Converse OF Yahoo Talks About Aggregation Spam Search Engine Forums Spotlight - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: TrueLocal Launches Canadian...
And the "organic optimizers" have helped search engines and the Internet as a whole improve over the years by battle-testing their algorithms against spam, publicizing the importance of search engines as a marketing tool, and encouraging clients...
Was Yahoo somehow filtering out spam pages? In lieu of a relevancy figure, size figures could be trotted out and the search engine with the biggest bar on the chart wins! In other words, assume you search for a "rare" term and one search engine...
Google Search by Number Spam. Thousands of articles, books and forum entries detail how to make your site search engine friendly, but ultimately, one rule stands above the rest: Content is king. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies...
This week, SearchDay has featured Search Engine Strategies reports covering panels that looked at the issue of search engine spam, focusing primarily on definitions and boundaries. In today's SearchDay article guest writer Andrew Goodman offers his...
Yahoo defines spam as "pages created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results. Search engine spam defined The attendees were presented with a fairly clear definition of search...
Search Algorithm Research FyberSearch Gains Ignore Tag To Help With Blog Spam. Getting Free Of Search Spam By Danny Sullivan, Jan. The article itself looks at display ads, the Yahoo purchase of the European Kelkoo shopping search engine and...
At our recent SES Chicago show, we had two sessions that tackled the always controversial subject of search engine spam. Honestly, it's very difficult for people to "accidentally" spam search engines.
