Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"? If you have received this warning, Google has labeled your site or parts of it straight out spam.
Like spam reports, I believe the Link Disavow files go directly to Google's web spam team which is charged with developing scalable solutions. I think it's entirely possible that the Disavow Links tool is nothing more than a new feature added to...
Don’t spam the site owners with a crazy number of emails: Many people will advise you to send an email to site owners every few days until they either respond or remove your link. If you do this, not only are you going to annoy the webmaster, but...
Comment spam. Quoting from Danny Goodwin's post last week, these were the common link issues that caused drops in ranking: Sometimes a silver bullet isn't as obvious as link-baiting for tens of thousands of links.
For example, you might have a worksheet for directories, another for comment spam, another for article sites, etc. When analyzing the link profiles of websites hit by Penguin 2.0, you can clearly see unnatural links pointing to deeper pages on the...
They are building spam fighting algos that improve the overall quality of search results. It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except, for one fact – Google is not building spam fighting algorithms to evaluate each...
Google spam detection is all about patterns in your link profile. Although natural links should be seen as votes of confidence, sometimes a link is an agreed obligation for business partners, discounts, or other deals.
Comment spam. Essentially, both sites scream "spam! Those link issues were: That said, Link Research Tools has taken a deep dive into a couple of the Penguin 2.0 casualties mentioned on those lists: HOME24.DE and cheapoair.com.
Google doesn't like spam, irrelevant content, spam, and dubious backlinks. The conversation should focus on spam and dodgy backlinks, irrelevant content marketing, and spam networks. The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? The company had never bought a link, was completely legit, and worked feverishly on their content marketing – yet they had 16 warnings and penalties.
Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. While discussed many times, webmasters still struggle with shifting their link building activities to...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. However it is also important to ensure you understand factors such as how design impacts SEO, the link between usability and...
Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. It doesn't help anyone, and it's really just a slightly more advanced form of spam. We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and...
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
The Good Ol' Way #5: Ad Spam Buy a link, link gets devalued, sell a new link it was a self-perpetuating industry, but it worked! Link buying is still around, but Google has taken a very special interest of late, in deterring if not eliminating this...
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?
