Internal links, title tags, semantic mark-up, and clean code are just some of the onsite SEO factors that will contribute to significant improvements in rankings, usability, and indexing. Obviously there is a white hat/black hat/gray hat blur on...
Many people have maligned search engines as being either unwilling to really tackle latent semantic indexing because of the processor-intensive requirement, or unable to because of many technological and taxonomical limitations.
The main reason for the development of nofollow was blog comment spam. 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.
Sullivan gently tried to introduce concepts of indexing barriers and other needs for SEO professionals, some of which Calacanis conceded.Sounding not unlike Seth Godin, Calacanis continued, referring to "splogs" (scraped nonsense blogs angling for...
Arvind Jain is the head of Research and Development in Google's Bangalore office, and has spoken at a number of conferences on infrastructure projects and issues involving such things as Google's crawl and indexing system, distributed file...
SEOMoz reports that Google has been having issues ranking and indexing MiniMatt, took a look at Rand's post and refused to comment on "specific sites. A Spam Detection Tool; A Spam Detection Tool: How White Hat Is Your Web Site?
SEOMoz reports that Google has been having issues ranking and indexing MiniMatt, took a look at Rand's post and refused to comment on "specific sites. Spam Detection Tool: How White Hat Is Your Web Site?
This morning I posted at the Search Engine Roundtable have a nice roundup of forum threads that are discussing the most recent Google issues with indexing pages. Want to comment or discuss? The Register reports that Google is "choking on web spam...
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.
How About An Indexing Summit! Comment Want to comment or discuss? Steps In To Stop Spamming - From 1999, covers how the US government stepped in to stop one of the worst cases of search spam, when content is used to mislead people (in this case...
New Congressional Research Report Looks at Google Book Search, Online Indexing and Fair Use - On December 28th the Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a six page research report that looks at online indexing, law, fair use, and the...
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...
If suddenly every site on the web were to block Google from indexing them, Want to comment or discuss? We've even had reports of "monetization targeting" where site owners have found that doing an ad or paid inclusion buy might clear up a spam...
Looking over at Google, I see Craiglist seems to have no problem of Google indexing 12 million of its pages. Of course, there's a difference between indexing a page and scraping the content to be included in a more vertical service.
It's based off feeds, and the ranking is going to be much different than the full text indexing of web pages that web search uses. Blog Search: Redirects and Indexing from the official Blogger blog, spotted via InsideGoogle, notes that the...
In other words, the feed database has a much shorter history range than the web database, something that full text indexing would solve -- though you'd lose the ability to more accurate do things like author and date range searching if you're...
Removing barriers to indexing. Insert Race/Culture/Nationality Here” is [Insert Derogatory Comment/Stereotype Here” In that, Mike explains how guest book spam had an terrible impact on a memorial site of a friend he lost:
Grehan had a ready answer: He expects the introduction of probabilistic latent semantic indexing and probabilistic hyper text induced topic search. Want to discuss or comment on this story? A Taxonomy of Web Spam.
The crawler automatically identifies and categorizes web content, indexing only shopping related information and discarding other types of content. Want to discuss or comment on this story? It also only crawls on-topic links, discarding non...
Later, I'll be writing about new page-specific markup that Yahoo is proposing that were raised at the Indexing Summit we held at SES New York (for some fast details, see our Indexing Summit - SES NYC 05 forum thread with live coverage of that).
