Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. The Search Engine Watch website is a great example of modern design with creative, yet simple elements, in it's navigation...
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 Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For...
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. Social channels have a way to go to perfect their...
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...
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...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. Avoid bad link building techniques, as Google has gotten much stronger as spotting link manipulation attempts and schemes.
Forum spam Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot industry topics and here are the answers that Gregory Cox (GC), David Burgess (DB), Caroline Lyons (CL), David Torchiano (DT), and Derk Doijer...
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.
Anything else can be seen as a form of search engine spam. When you want to make certain you don’t lose any link value to pages you don’t even want indexed, JavaScript offers some great solutions. Dealing with duplicate content and effectively...
Izik is a new search experience built specifically with the iPad and Android tablets in mind using Blekko's algorithms, sans-spam thanks to human curating. When you click a result link, the page will open within the app.
I lump these together because even though they are quite different is many ways, they are quite similar in that they attract link spam like flies. A continued increase in spam, and more blogs eliminating comments altogether.
Penguin then came along and cleaned up web spam and tried to put an end to black hat practices. After all, YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine.also saw Bing begin to challenge Google more forcibly than before.
Important note: You should never, ever use automated translation – but if you must due to the nature of your industry or the size of your website, then make sure you use your robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling any auto...
If we look at some of the most competitive terms in Google we will see a search engine filled with spam and hacked domains ranking in the top 10. Even weirder is that the techniques used to rank this spam are as old as (if not older than) Google...
Use a good spam scrubbing software to flag bad comments, limit links, and make sure to have some method of human moderation. It can take relatively few instances of comment spam to wind up with a manual penalty.
If you don’t have a clear plan and strategy in place then, you may get a few quick wins, but in the main you are really just creating additional noise and new forms of spam. The growth of social media and the links between content and social and...
Now you may see your search rankings significantly lowered for just not watching your comment spam or for having too many ads on a page above the fold. Not moderating my comment spam might just mean I have a small team of people, not that the...
We know for certain that they couldn’t fix the link spam issue alone and so they needed to create a “game” scenario that ensured social cooperation. That came from its attempts to clean up the link graph of spammy links to enable the search giant...
As the saying goes, SPAM just stands for Sites Positioned Above Mine. It’s a war on spam. Black hat SEO is not negative SEO or competitive leveling (a term I much prefer); it is the tactics you use that are specifically forbidden by the search engine.
