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Throw in the fact that as Google’s algorithm got better at detecting poor quality links, some less ethical SEOs were buying links and pointing them at competitors, in hopes of taking down their competitors so their own sites would rank better.
Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam With Google, link quality and relevance are key, so by being able to attract quality links from authoritative domains in the same...
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, yesterday announced that Google had pushed out the new algorithm. The web spam algorithm update will affect about 3.1 percent of English Google queries, but noted it would have...
The Google algorithm is complex. If they're looking this closely on "quality results" for the end user (the searcher), shouldn't they also have these people hand-checking backlinks to see how many are paid or hack-jobs like we see above, or are...
We forget that the Web was originally set up as a research tool and that the whole Google algorithm was based on that premise. When Mark Jackson emphasized this in 2007, he wrote that, "Quality content affects both the quality and amount of inbound...
I almost want the search engines to say spam is simply defined by whether they feel your intent was to subvert their algorithm and harm relevancy. Are "black hatters" unethical and subverting search quality by going too far with search engines?
As I explained earlier this week, a significant change to Google's ranking algorithm has caused some web sites to lose top positions for some search terms. Google, like all search engines, uses a system called an algorithm to rank the web pages it...
However, Google needn't use just the Hilltop algorithm to get some of these benefits and produce some the changes we've seen. Google has tweaked the both the PageRank counting system and its entire search algorithm over time.
Want an analytical peek at some of the core components of Google's famous PageRank algorithm? Profile of Google and how it aims to serve its users, with a special look at comments from Google staffers on the front lines of assuring quality.
Knowledgeable webmasters realize that PageRank is just one component of Google's ranking algorithm, and that the reported value on the Google Toolbar is often virtually meaningless. It's clear that many of the links to LinkingMatters.com have...
Knowledgeable webmasters realize that PageRank is just one component of Google's ranking algorithm, and that the reported value on the Google Toolbar is often virtually meaningless. The Second Eigenvalue of the Google Matrix SearchDay, March 17...
