Comment spam. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Now look at Moz' top 10 ranking factors in 2005 and 2007. Quoting from Danny Goodwin's post last week, these were the common link issues that caused...
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...
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...
When SEO becomes an issue is when spam comes into play, such as if you go overboard buying links, doing comment spam links, or keyword stuffing. By this time next year, Cutts hopes people are less likely to do link buying, blog comment spam, etc.
Comment spam. Using exact match anchor text for your “money keywords” in comments or in the username in the comment section The site owner hadn’t appreciated how profoundly these spam tactics went against Google’s mission, which is purportedly to...
Even if Google ever manually reviewed comment spam, I would argue that the example below is justification enough to be labelled as a spammer - which would probably lead to a penalty. Comment spam does not mean you are getting a quality link from a...
Also a great alternative to Google and prides itself on being a spam-free search engine. Widely used on social network platforms in order to associate a tweet/comment with something. A new search algorithm designed to detect, and boot out, spam.
This new platform would give Google an incredible tool to curb the endless comment spam manipulating their algorithms. With this new source of content coming from verified Google profiles, Google should be able to assign a score to the author of...
Comment spam: Two things proved problematic for websites trying to unnaturally rank for specific keywords: signatures in comments that contained exact match anchor text; and people who used a spammy user name (e.g.
Please feel free to comment and add your own thoughts. I saw a ridiculous link spam service rank above me and I'd never seen them before. I ran a backlink analysis and could see their link spam immediately.
Except Google called it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam – a.k.a.keyword stuffing and link schemes, in the process causing some big search ranking upheavals. The “over-optimization penalty” became the equivalent of an SEO ghost story...
Raters can also comment on the work of others. Should the page get a spam or porn flag? For example, a recent Search Engine Evaluator job posting for Leapforce asks that applicants have a university degree.
Obviously there is a white hat/black hat/gray hat blur on this point, so please feel free to discuss and comment below. The best protection against spam links or bad links is to be proactive. This time, I turned to some fellow Search Engine Watch...
Facebook drops the comment button, allows users to edit replies - The Next Web Blekko is touting "the first search algorithm ever created to find spam rather than rank results," AdSpam. Blekko AdSpam Algorithm Finds, Eliminates Spam by Danny Goodwin
So, Matt Cutts and Google, if you are reading this maybe you would like to comment as to why innocent providers of high quality original content are being treated so badly? So curious, Horowitz started to reach out to the numerous people at Google...
Comment Links Dropping a URL in a comment isn't a big deal, but mixing in some anchor text in the "Name:" section is a spammy signal. The vast majority of blogs are some variation of Wordpress or Blogspot, which set comment links by default to...
In the off chance one of your customers were to stumble across your comment, would you want them to read something that sounded like spam? Same as above -- choose only the most relevant blog posts to comment on, regardless of whether a competitor...
Combine that with the comment Pat Sexton made this week that well over 10 million people have found Facebook's SuperPoke! But I think that they force the search engines to improve their spam filters. Many of you have probably seen auto-generated...
If you're a business that targets a specific area – join Flickr and post photos of your business and neighborhood, and comment on photos taken in your area. There are rules, of course – participate, contribute, don't spam, don't hard sell, and don...
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the...
