Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments. Link – Search Engine Roundtable Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
I have often said that until social figures out "spam" (fake profiles/automation, etc.the way that search engines have figured out link spam, social signals can’t be as relevant as we might like. As they get bigger, they must deal with a tsunami of...
Your Links On Pinterest May Be Stopping Traffic In Its Tracks – Marketing LandIf you're using a URL shortener on Pinterest, beware it may take users to a page that says: “Suspicious Link: This link redirects to another site, it may link to spam or...
If no manual action was taken, then you'll receive an automated message that tells you that there was no spam action found on your site. Similarly, you can include a link to a Google spreadsheet showing your links and what efforts you have made to...
That's where the legacy of spam does us a favor – if we offer transparency and accountability, we're already stepping away from that legacy with a simple link list. How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam?
Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Jonas Weber talk spam, bad links, link building, content, social signals, and more. Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. After you have meticulously completed a link audit and followed all of the steps necessary to emerge from a manual penalty...
Upon digging into the ratings, I noticed a review that said, "profile link spam". For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. Think of it like McAfee's site advisor, but focused on fighting spam and...
If I was asked what my money was on, I would say we will see a tightening of what is an allowable level of spam still further, some attempt to begin measuring link authority by the neighborhood it comes from and any associated social signals that...
Sort out link spam. Point being, even with all Google's efforts to thwart link spam and manipulative link practices, paid links are still prevalent and still work. A former member of Matt Cutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. This is not helpful to the end-user and leaves a bad footprint in the link graph.
Forum spam Link Building Link building is far from dead. SEW: Link building: dead or evolving? GC: I have never paid attention to link building much.create something that someone wants to share, and then repeat that over and over again.
Another easy way to generate links to your blog posts in a way that isn't spam is via systems like Zemanta and other content distribution systems. Essentially, this is where you can generate internal link points based on providing real information...
The Penguin algorithm, initially released last April, was designed to reduce web spam and also hit website that had link profiles that appeared unnatural. Cutts also put out word that Google plans to target more link networks this year, including...
SEO and Spam Well, if enough people flag them as spam, then perhaps Facebook will look into them, beyond that it’s a matter of increasing awareness of this type of trick. Simply fill out the Google spam report and let them deal with it.
It should come as no surprise that this seismic shift in content attitude among marketers is in lock step with Google’s aggressive crusade (verging on Draconian) to purge the SERPs of low value rank spam, and bubble up content of value.
SEO cocitation was a hot topic many years ago as Google introduced anti-spam updates geared toward devaluing links from poor-quality blog networks. More recent discussions of cocitation have shifted the focus away from link juice and toward the...
Google wouldn’t be wasting their time creating the Penguin Algorithm and imposing Manual Link Spam penalties if backlinks didn’t still make a big difference. Keep in mind that Penguin is just the latest anti link spam algorithm rolled out by Google.
Tons of directories, article submission sites, comment spam, link networks, etc. I’ve now analyzed more than 160 sites hit by Penguin, and the culprit every time was a horrible link profile. Many of the companies hit by Penguin at some point hired...
Last year Google unleashed the most aggressive campaign of major algo updates ever in its crusade to battle rank spam. Proper pagination is highly effective at distributing link equity throughout your site.
