The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the content marketing world with an even steeper rise in blog comment spam, links, and dubious and irrelevant requests to webmasters and blog owners to consider crap guest posts.
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. If I'm visiting a forum, answers site or blog and there's a thread discussing great food in new city...
Tons of directories, article submission sites, comment spam, link networks, etc. There are some important insights in that post that relate to this topic. We have nothing to worry about.then you should grab a cup of coffee and read the rest of this...
There are close to zero scenarios where I can see a link drop in a forum or blog comment as having any signal value to a search engine. I lump these together because even though they are quite different is many ways, they are quite similar in that...
Comment Spam One of the newer penalties that people are finding in their inbox is one for comment spam. It can take relatively few instances of comment spam to wind up with a manual penalty. Use a good spam scrubbing software to flag bad comments...
I wouldn't suggest popping your link into a casual comment because that's not a good way to build long-term link exposure, but using your site for your comment signature can lead people to you, even if it doesn't actually generate a link on the spot.
Provide quick links to the comment form Make this easy by displaying the commenter's "website" or social accounts as links on their comment block. SMO Objective: Get users to share, bookmark, rate, comment on, and link to the article.
But we're not here to build links by spam commenting, right? This will help you grow your base of sites to comment upon. Well in this case, if you don't have something useful to contribute to the comments, don't try to comment.
Consequently, blogs were often inundated with tons of blog comment spam. This was significantly helpful in cutting down on blog comment spam. However, it also negatively impacted legitimate comment links from getting any credit as far as the search...
Leave a comment below. However, you never know how long they'll work for or when/if you will be busted by the spam police. Those days for "credit card" rankings changed around July 1, if you refer to Aaron Wall's post on this topic.
A benign title to anyone who has never run a blog and experienced the headache, "Preventing comment spam" promised future bloggers comment spam would be greatly devalued by this simple tag. One of the people involved in the comment spam fighting...
By using an algorithm type method to rank the spam-karma on a comment, it eliminates the need to moderate comments. Very rarely do we see a rogue comment slip through using this tool. We’ve made it our choice for controlling spam comments.
This is done because it is very difficult for webmasters to "fake" good links, in the way they might try to spam search engines by manipulating the words on their web pages. Some of the search engines will index ALT text and comment information.
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. The main reason for the development of nofollow was blog comment spam.
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Comment Want to comment or discuss? It gives you an idea of how old school some of the spam tactics the automotive makers are doing. Not everyone agrees with spam rules, but even those who don't understand that if they do something against the...
Want to discuss, comment or contribute news? Matt, officially a Google software engineer, covers not all SEO being spam, no one being able to guarantee a top ranking free listing on Google, as Talking With Google's Matt Cutts - Interview Of Matt...
Sorry you were upset I felt like I had to comment on a piece written by a major IT journalist who thinks blogs aren't part of WEB search. Stick to the bigger problem that for the blog RSS alerts I get, there's still a ton of spam and off-topic...
Want to discuss or comment? It's not spam free. Spam clearly hasn't been eliminated. But for a query on google, spam is back with a vengeance. Doorway page spam on Google -- it is 1999! What we need is either better spam filtering or some type of...
Want to discuss or comment on this story? Throughout the book, icons flag sections that deal with two very important concerns: spam and the defacto global implications of search marketing campaigns. Many beginners run into trouble when they push...
