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...
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...
Primarily it’s up to the search engines, the social networks, and the site owners to prevent it as much as they can, but flagging spam where you can will at least give them a hand in identifying this web junk.
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...
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.
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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. Harbour may have gotten a link from Mashable in the result below...
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.
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...
Comment spam: Two things proved problematic for websites trying to unnaturally rank for specific keywords: signatures in comments that contained exact match anchor text; and people who used a spammy user name (e.g.
Please feel free to comment and add your own thoughts. I saw a ridiculous link spam service rank above me and I'd never seen them before. I ran a backlink analysis and could see their link spam immediately.
Except Google called it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam – a.k.a.keyword stuffing and link schemes, in the process causing some big search ranking upheavals. Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live
There has been a great deal of speculation about the shape and form search engine rankings will take after Google’s chief spam cop Matt Cutts first announced that the search engine is working on devising a new penalty for sites that are “over...
For those who don’t, Cutts is the head of the web Spam team at Google. And Cutts may actually want to clarify his comment, in this instance, so that folks know. That is to say, Cutts works diligently to ensure that Google’s search results are “good...
