Basically, Google created the mechanism that clogs its own data centers and overwhelms its own spam battlers. Google's second largest revenue source turned 8 yesterday and despite its $2.5 billion contribution to the company coffers last year, it...
I recently received some spam messages from someone through LinkedIn who wanted me to hire his company to do amazing linking. Many of the one-time regular visitors over at the Search Engine Watch forums are now avid users of Twitter.
But I think that they force the search engines to improve their spam filters. Many of you have probably seen auto-generated content before, either in blogs or even e-mails that slip through spam filters.
All in all, this is one of the most despicable players I've seen in the spam/scam SEO game. Internet Advancement of Redmond, which also does business as 4GreatBuys.com, was accused of misrepresenting its ability to provide top search engine...
Wales thinks adding a human element can help solve some of the issues with spam and deceptive content showing up in search results. It's easy for people to tell what a good result is, and what's spam or deceptive.
It seems that Google's Web spam team is sick and tired of "Googlebombs," the practice of linking an unflattering phrase to a person's name to make a (usually political) statement. Google's Matt Cutts, in posts on the Google Webmaster Central blog...
Finally the use of coordinates to hide text or stacking chunks of content on top of each other can be disadvantageous as engines can detect this as a spam technique.Ajax would simply fall under the category of "ugly," not because it makes for ugly...
Tim Converse, the "spam fighter" at Yahoo, has a fun post he named Search engine optimization (SEO) from black to white. Digg Changes Its Algorithm : Harder to Get on Homepage, Search Engine Journal Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've...
Garett says he doesn't know why Google removed it, but maybe it had to do with web spammers creating too many spam pages? AOL has quietly rolled out a major upgrade to its search service, adding new "FullView" links that automatically pull in...
Google's Spam Score Details Shown? Peter Da Vanzo spotted a DigitalPoint thread that found clues as to how Google scores spam results behind the scenes. Now, honestly, I have no idea if this is about spam or something else, it is just that the...
MSN Talks Spam Defenses; Takes Weekends Off From Indexing This morning I uncovered two threads at WebmasterWorld that provide information on MSN from spam defense to when search indexes get updated. where MSNdude provides some insights into how MSN...
This week's fiasco with the "5 billion spam pages" in Google only underscores that those counts really are a big issue that can be noticed by more than a few tech heads. Google has been having its recent spam and indexing problems because Matt's...
Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and autolinking. Go Daddy describes a way of fighting spam in emails.
I even now get horrible spam promising to tell me how to make money off Google AdSense. Google, of course, is more than a search engine itself. Anyone who has failed to get this picture can't miss it now, as Google announced yesterday that it...
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A "good" name server may have a mix of different domains from different registrars and have a history of hosting those domains, while a "bad" name server might host mainly pornography or doorway domains, domains with commercial words (a common...
The Register reports that Google is "choking on web spam" ever since the roll out of The Big Daddy Infrastructure. A new Yahoo patent application published today builds upon a method for finding reputable pages on the web to reduce web spam when...
Dinged For Doorway Spam - BMW Germany is found to be employing doorway page spam to drive users to its web site through search engines but quickly is restored to the index. MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: The first...
Link analysis was the second generation jump that helped solve the real problem that AltaVista and contemporaries had, that they were getting overwhelmed by both spam and the sheer amount of content on the web.
Google Kills eBay Affiliate Spam Quickly, Others Survive for Search Engine It demonstrates once again how public spam reports can be so effective and how big major web sites really don't get the "death penalty," when it comes to spamming.
