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There are also many reports that, despite Penguin, Google is still ranking spam sites. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts tweeted about the new Penguin Spam Report today. When you go to the form, Google asks you for information about the...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? If you want to see how prevalent this is, go to Google search and put in ".gov" Viagra. To be fair, I can only be 99 percent sure that content, thanks to a Google engineer at a party at an SES...
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. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the...
He detailed that the new Penguin was specifically going to target blackhat spam, but would be a significantly larger impact on spam than the original Penguin and subsequent Penguin updates have had. Twitter is full of people commenting on the new...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. Vice versa, websites that are well optimized can look outdated, less engaging for the user and, given the recent focus on...
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...
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
The Good Ol' Way #5: Ad Spam As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's changes and then back to all the algorithm changes of years past and it...
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. No More Quick View in Google Search – Google Operating SystemGoogle removes the ability to see...
I have often said that until social figures out "spam" (fake profiles/automation, etc.the way that search engines have figured out link spam, social signals can’t be as relevant as we might like. Social channels have a way to go to perfect their...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
If no manual action was taken, then you'll receive an automated message that tells you that there was no spam action found on your site. Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your penalty removed and...
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.
Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting – TechCrunchSpring cleaning boots a bunch of apps, including many...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms.
To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead Matt Cutts the algorithm filter has "iterated" to date but there will be a "next generation" coming that will have a major impact on SERPs. When I look for spam the first place I look is around exact match...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to $1.23 billion in 2013, but...
Point being, even with all Google's efforts to thwart link spam and manipulative link practices, paid links are still prevalent and still work. Sort out link spam. But it's statements like "relevance is the new PR" (emphasis on "new"), aggressive...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. In the face of continuing Google updates and a desire to stay “clean,” most marketers flirt with the idea of giving up on SEO...
Forum spam Paid Search Beyond Google: Social Media, Bing & Retargeting Ads Google has done well at scaring webmasters to linking out fairly to other websites. When the abuse becomes too obvious, Google is forced to take measures.
