Also, anyone wanting to post a comment will need a Google+ account. 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...
Although there has been no official announcement or comment by the social media giant, the long-rumored idea of Facebook incorporating hashtags – the ubiquitous # symbol used on Twitter to make certain keywords or topics searchable – gathered...
If I'm visiting a forum, answers site or blog and there's a thread discussing great food in new city, it's going to be easier and more effective to leave a comment, noting that you're a local and visit many restaurants and wrote a series of...
It’s easy, and it’s so simple that even Great Aunt Matilda could comment “Brick” or “Lodi” and feel pleased with herself that she accomplished something that was claimed to be “not easy”. Simply fill out the Google spam report and let them deal...
Tons of directories, article submission sites, comment spam, link networks, etc. Here are two examples of trending from sites that experienced a surge before an algorithm hit (one directly from Google Analytics, and one with data exported from...
Basically, though, Google+ works like the others: you promote content and others can share it, like it (by +1'ing it), or comment on it. We used to comment on blog posts and in forums mainly, but now we have all these other ways of expressing our...
It can take relatively few instances of comment spam to wind up with a manual penalty. Comment Spam One of the newer penalties that people are finding in their inbox is one for comment spam. Use a good spam scrubbing software to flag bad comments...
Now you may see your search rankings significantly lowered for just not watching your comment spam or for having too many ads on a page above the fold. Not moderating my comment spam might just mean I have a small team of people, not that the...
Finally, webmasters were simply getting burned out at all the link removal requests they were receiving, even on links that were already nofollowed (such as blog comment links) or for links on websites that weren't penalized in any way, because...
The goal of the update was to clean up link profiles relying on heavily sculpted exact match anchor text (sites where 60 percent of anchor text was for “money” keywords) and comment spam, among other tactics, to artificially inflate search rankings.
Those online are understandably there to validate, share, comment, critique, respond and contribute to content. While Facebook has assured that they will improve spam detection, as a result of a startup alleging 80 percent of their traffic was sent...
When SEO becomes an issue is when spam comes into play, such as if you go overboard buying links, doing comment spam links, or keyword stuffing. By this time next year, Cutts hopes people are less likely to do link buying, blog comment spam, etc.
Google's Penguin update, and Panda a year earlier, marked the advent of a whole new approach to spam fighting. I really can't comment on it in any specific way, but you are right that these algorithms do represent new types of capabilities for us.
We’d love to know about yours too, so make sure to drop a comment below! For Firefox users, the Gmail Manager add-on displays account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail...
Comment on relevant blogs and sites without doing so in a spammy manner. I wouldn't suggest popping your link into a casual comment because that's not a good way to build long-term link exposure, but using your site for your comment signature can...
Comment spam. The site owner hadn’t appreciated how profoundly these spam tactics went against Google’s mission, which is purportedly to provide the most relevant results to users. Using exact match anchor text for your “money keywords” in comments...
Even if Google ever manually reviewed comment spam, I would argue that the example below is justification enough to be labelled as a spammer - which would probably lead to a penalty. But if your comment is purely for the sake of dropping links or...
Also a great alternative to Google and prides itself on being a spam-free search engine. Widely used on social network platforms in order to associate a tweet/comment with something. A new search algorithm designed to detect, and boot out, spam.
This new platform would give Google an incredible tool to curb the endless comment spam manipulating their algorithms. With this new source of content coming from verified Google profiles, Google should be able to assign a score to the author of...
As discussed in “Google Penguin Update: 5 Types of Link Issues Harming Some Affected Websites”, spammy link signals (paid text links using exact match anchor text, comment spam, guest posts on questionable sites, article marketing sites, and links...
