If you don't want certain pages to be indexed, you block them in the robots file. Widely used on social network platforms in order to associate a tweet/comment with something. Also a great alternative to Google and prides itself on being a spam...
Then there's the standard comment spam, just to get the message out to followers. Because Google+ comments and posts are crawled and indexed, they are ripe for abuse. Standard Comment Spamming On the other hand, it’s a problem if spam becomes so...
Of course, they have more than 8,000 pages of copy and more than 1.6 Million backlinks indexed in Yahoo. Leave a comment below. However, you never know how long they'll work for or when/if you will be busted by the spam police.
One particular site, undergroundtraininglab.info, has about six or seven pages with the same indexed content, each with different page titles related to search. There may be malware, and in either case there are strange redirects going on when I...
As long as it doesn't seem like spam, this type of comment will intrigue most bloggers. For the most part, MySpace is search engine friendly, so as long as there's a way to reach a profile from a directory or another site, it may be indexed.
Comment spam isn't what Rick Murray, president of Edelman's me2revolution team, had in mind when he said, "Just as brands are beginning to cede control to consumers, so too must PR practitioners start ceding control of messages and stories to both...
The attribute, which was originally intended to curb blog comment spam, is now a central part of the paid links debate sparked by Google's Matt Cutts. So basically, the anchor text and "link juice" will not pass through a nofollow link in Yahoo...
It's also worth mentioning that nofollow is not widely adopted today, so as a spam strategy, link comment spam might not yet be completely obsolete. The main reason for the development of nofollow was blog comment spam.
We haven't indexed anywhere close to as many pages of these sites as is currently suggested. When I saw the story on Monday, I doubted Google really had indexed so many pages, especially given the known problems with the site: command recently.
How did a web site recently get so many spam pages indexed so quickly in Google? Want to comment? Answer -- our article is one of many that explains its both a glitch with Google's site: command plus probably just a big problem with Google's...
The methods deployed to rank the pages seemed to include excessive use of subdomains, cloaking, content theft scraping, alexa traffic boosting and blog comment spam. A Threadwatch post shows screen captures of the spam and also has a comment from
To my understanding from Google, only if the AdSense spider had seen the page for ad content placement purposes or if regular Googlebot had already indexed the page for inclusion in the web search index.
Rand also noticed that Techmeme.com was not indexed at all. Today, this morning, the new name seems to have been indexed and is now ranking #1 for the Techmeme name. MiniMatt, took a look at Rand's post and refused to comment on "specific sites.
Rand also noticed that Techmeme.com was not indexed at all. Today, this morning, the new name seems to have been indexed and is now ranking #1 for the Techmeme name. MiniMatt, took a look at Rand's post and refused to comment on "specific sites.
MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: The first cooperative move for nearly ten years, where the major search engines unveiled a new indexing command for web authors designed to help reduce link and comment spam.
Sullivan tipped his cap to the little "rewards" that the search companies have offered to long-suffering search marketers of good conscience: "weather reports" by Yahoo Search, offering guidance on major algorithmic updates; Google Sitemaps...
That's because by and large, they've found that search engines drive more traffic to them than they cost in terms of bandwidth of being indexed. Want to comment or discuss? We've even had reports of "monetization targeting" where site owners...
That's a burden on our server, though since we're getting well indexed as a result, it's a burden we live with. Want to comment or discuss? Whether we have an "independent" ping service almost seems beyond the point when both Dave and Matt are...
The second new feature that has been introduced to hopefully reduce blog comment spam is an option for a Blogger user to require word verification for comments people post on a Blogger powered blog. As noted above, objectionable blogs will not be...
He'd already signed on to the nofollow comment spam fighting initiative. It never was going to be a complete solution to comment spam, nor has it been. As the links weren't hidden to search engines, they found the special "articles" area of the...
