You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? SEO isn't just search engine optimization anymore. 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...
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. This prospect creates fear for many small businesses who depend on search engine optimization (SEO...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. The Search Engine Watch website is a great example of modern design with creative, yet simple elements, in it's navigation...
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. Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google...
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...
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. Build a glossary: The Search Engine Marketing Glossary at SEOBook is packed with useful definitions and explanations.
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Hackers Are Smarter: SEOs, Be Prepared – Search Engine Roundtable Squidoo Now NoFollows Their Outbound Links...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. PPC should be in the marketing portfolio already, as it is an excellent complement to search engine optimization.
Forum spam Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot industry topics and here are the answers that Gregory Cox (GC), David Burgess (DB), Caroline Lyons (CL), David Torchiano (DT), and Derk Doijer...
It should come as no surprise that this seismic shift in content attitude among marketers is in lock step with Google’s aggressive crusade (verging on Draconian) to purge the SERPs of low value rank spam, and bubble up content of value.
Anything else can be seen as a form of search engine spam. On-page robot instructions like the canonical tag, rel=next, and hreflang can also be used to indicate how you want Google to handle near duplicate content.
Izik is a new search experience built specifically with the iPad and Android tablets in mind using Blekko's algorithms, sans-spam thanks to human curating. Number two search engine, Bing, also feels mobile search should be different from mobile...
Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse on Bing, so just forget them. The title tag should contain important keywords to help the search engine determine what the page is about.
Penguin then came along and cleaned up web spam and tried to put an end to black hat practices. After all, YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine.also saw Bing begin to challenge Google more forcibly than before.
Important note: You should never, ever use automated translation – but if you must due to the nature of your industry or the size of your website, then make sure you use your robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling any auto...
If we look at some of the most competitive terms in Google we will see a search engine filled with spam and hacked domains ranking in the top 10. Even weirder is that the techniques used to rank this spam are as old as (if not older than) Google...
Designed to reduce web spam, the update initially caused a good deal of consternation for many, with reports of sites unfairly caught in the update. This change was significant - not only because of the prominence Google is now giving results from...
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...
