We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g.languages with more webspam will see more impact.
In fact, if the site eluded the Google Webspam team's manual reviews, good spinner (algorithmically written) content could take the place of human written content and a person could generate sites as fast as you could say Matt Cutts (OK, well...
Matt Cutts, the head of webspam at Google, has recorded an enormous amount of videos offering suggestions to help website owners create quality websites that perform well in the search. The Short Cutts - The Actual Answers To Every Matt Cutts Video
Dear Google Webspam team member, The webspam team doesn't care about this. However, anger or threats won't win over or bully the webspam team member who reads your request. Once you have filed your reconsideration request, it will get read by a...
Ex-Googler Andre Weyher, who worked on Google’s webspam team with Matt Cutts, was recently interviewed by Jayson DeMers and asked about the “biggest misconceptions or myths that he had seen about ‘bad links’ and link profile penalties in the SEO...
Late last week, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a “small,” upcoming algorithm change meant to reduce the amount of low quality exact match domains in search results. The patent paperwork was filed in 2003 and lists Amit Singhal, Matt...
Late Friday, heading into the long weekend, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a Penguin data refresh now known as Penguin 1.1. Every so often, Cutts throws webmasters a bone via tweets framing algorithm updates or data refreshes as...
SEW Director Jonathan Allen just took a look into one such case; a webmaster suffered a loss of traffic and business post-Penguin, largely due to his over-reliance on Google and a penchant for webspam.
In a nutshell, the two months that he had commissioned article spinning, March and April 2012, just happened to be the exact same time that Matt Cutt's webspam team at Google resolved to develop an algorithm update that specifically targeted spun...
This week, we finally learned about the new Google webspam algorithm, an all-out offensive aimed at detecting spammy tactics such as keyword stuffing, link spam, and spun content. Meanwhile, a firestorm of industry speculation erupted after Matt...
Webspam Algorithm Update Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, yesterday announced that Google had pushed out the new algorithm. The “over-optimization penalty” became the equivalent of an SEO ghost story over the...
On his blog, Matt Cutts, who heads Google's Webspam team, points out how his query for general tso's chicken is improved by social links. Manjoo cites an example mentioned by Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts of where the presentation of...
Matt Cutts, head of webspam at Google, appeared on AOL.com this morning as part of their "You've got:" series of videos in which well known talking heads and commentators suggest an idea to readers. The 90 second long video is called "You've got...
He added, "As 'pure webspam' has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to 'content farms,' which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer, said on the Official Google Blog that "English-language...
Google promptly set up an interview with Matt Cutts, the head of the Webspam team at Google, and a man whose every speech, blog post and Twitter update is parsed like papal encyclicals by players in the search engine world," the newspaper noted.
Matt Cutts notes "As "pure webspam" has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to "content farms," which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. Okay when Matt Cutts speaks the search industry listens.
Now, I know Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Webspam team. If you do a search on Google for "Matt Cutts," the Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO blog ranks #1. According to the Google "Similar" feature, the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog...
That's why Google has invested so much time and money in Matt Cutts' WebSpam team. Google and Microsoft make billions of dollars in revenue from their search engines, and protecting that revenue stream is a critical activity for them.
Two weeks ago, Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, told search marketers that Google had changed the way it handles the nofollow attribute. Scenario 1: Matt Cutts is Telling the Truth There are those out there who think Matt Cutts is...
This week, Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, recorded a . Matt Cutts Clarifies Google's New Preference of Brands Posted by Kevin Newcomb Mar 9, 2009 The search world has been abuzz for the past week or two with the news that Google now...
