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. Can I buy a domain that used to have spam on it and still rank? Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo Pulvirenti and...
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...
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...
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.
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...
As the saying goes, SPAM just stands for Sites Positioned Above Mine. It’s a war on spam. If you go by the search engine’s rules, when an update comes it is much less likely you will be affected. Black hat SEO is not negative SEO or competitive...
In fact going throw some controversy in the mix, if any other site did this, Google would be called “blackhatting” “scraping” or many terms usually reserved for “SPAM”, but this is Google and whatever you think of it, there is no getting away from...
For one, sources of unverifiable sources of data (a.k.a.spam), such as Ripoff Report. For example, let’s look at the seven results returned for Search Engine Watch: These sites provide verifiable data that Google can use to and establish...
After recounting Sergey Brin's claim Google is spam proof from a past SES, Cutts discussed Google’s new found transparency. Then earlier this year Google sent out messages for everything but egregious black hat spam.
Rightfully these strategies don't work well anymore (not to be confused with “doesn't work at all” but this is a “best practices” article and not a “here's how to trick and spam Google” article) but content being generated for search engines is...
Comment spam. The site owner hadn’t appreciated how profoundly these spam tactics went against Google’s mission, which is purportedly to provide the most relevant results to users. Google’s most recent Penguin update has caused a storm of...
What is likely screaming “spam” to Google is a closer look at where these links are coming from: unrelated sites, comments, and more than 7,000 are coming from one domain. A post earlier this week, “SEO, Why You Are Doing it Wrong,” attempted to...
Therefore the measure of whether you are creating spam or not should always be focused on whether a human user can predict what information they will find on the page they land simply by reading the link.
While there are many, I like this: any deliberate human action that is meant to trigger an unjustifiably favorable relevance or importance for some web page, considering the page's true value.from Web Spam Taxonomy, Stanford)
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live Google specifically mentions that doorway pages, which are only built to attract search engine traffic, are against their webmaster...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Sadly the work of old is now catching up with many webmasters as spammy, low value links are pounced on by the Web Spam team. Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live
Also a great alternative to Google and prides itself on being a spam-free search engine. A new search algorithm designed to detect, and boot out, spam. S - Sitewides, Social Signals, SERPs, Spam Spam Spam links are considered to be links that are...
