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...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. 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...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Build a glossary: The Search Engine Marketing Glossary at SEOBook is packed with useful definitions and explanations.
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Hackers Are Smarter: SEOs, Be Prepared – Search Engine Roundtable Squidoo Now NoFollows Their Outbound Links...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. PPC should be in the marketing portfolio already, as it is an excellent complement to search engine optimization.
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. Dealing with duplicate content and effectively funneling internal link value are just a few examples. Google accepts a lot of additional HTML instructions to let you help it, but it still...
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. Number two search engine, Bing, also feels mobile search should be different from mobile...
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.
Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse on Bing, so just forget them. The title tag should contain important keywords to help the search engine determine what the page is about.
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...
See CAN-SPAM details for more guidance). Erick Mott: Is using email to request contributions for a crowdfunding campaign (especially consumer products where a contribution is a "pre-order") considered spam?
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...
Designed to reduce web spam, the update initially caused a good deal of consternation for many, with reports of sites unfairly caught in the update. This change was significant - not only because of the prominence Google is now giving results from...
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...
