Comment spam. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Web marketing has seen incredible growth and development in the last ten years. Every major Google algorithm update is followed by weeks and weeks of...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Obviously there is a white hat/black hat/gray hat blur on this point, so please feel free to discuss and comment below. The best protection against spam links or bad links is to be proactive. This time, I turned to some fellow Search Engine Watch...
Facebook drops the comment button, allows users to edit replies - The Next Web Blekko is touting "the first search algorithm ever created to find spam rather than rank results," AdSpam. Blekko AdSpam Algorithm Finds, Eliminates Spam by Danny Goodwin
So, Matt Cutts and Google, if you are reading this maybe you would like to comment as to why innocent providers of high quality original content are being treated so badly? So curious, Horowitz started to reach out to the numerous people at Google...
Comment Links Dropping a URL in a comment isn't a big deal, but mixing in some anchor text in the "Name:" section is a spammy signal. The vast majority of blogs are some variation of Wordpress or Blogspot, which set comment links by default to...
Anytime you don't play nice in some part of it, there will be people who notice, and some of those people will comment on it somewhere on the web. A better alternative, perhaps, is to have a human do it, and to have them put some real effort into...
Forum and blog comment spam will no doubt see a huge increase and endless new content will hit the web, taxing the search engine crawlers. The impact will also be seen in the addition of spam elements cluttering the web.
In the off chance one of your customers were to stumble across your comment, would you want them to read something that sounded like spam? Try not to think of the comment as just a link -- think of it as reputation management as well.
