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. Enhanced campaigns improvements for Google+ and mobile apps – Inside AdWordsEnhanced campaigns...
Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting – TechCrunchSpring cleaning boots a bunch of apps, including many of the MP3/ringtone variety. Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Google Search Quality Team Thank you for helping us to maintain the quality of our search results.
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Following Google’s decision to make Shopping a paid product, the number of shopping results showing in universal...
Forum spam As long as you're creating quality content that people are actually looking for, you're doing something worthwhile. Now that quality links have become even harder to obtain they will be rewarded with greater value.
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.
It’s a war on spam. As the saying goes, SPAM just stands for Sites Positioned Above Mine. When SEO professionals talk of quality, they are talking in terms of the search engines’ interpretation of quality, not the money or name behind the site.
As a matter of fact, Google’s four other spam initiatives beyond Panda and Penguin addressed two instances of site quality adjustments, keyword stuffing and hacked page detection. Consequently, spam updates didn't make the top 10 list of Google...
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.
Whereas even a year ago I would have said that sites appearing high in the SERPs would be good sites to contact, due to the truly amazing amount of spam and hacked sites that appear high up for certain search terms, I'd say you need to visit the...
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. Even if these small businesses remove any or all of these unwanted links...
Comment spam does not mean you are getting a quality link from a high profile website. An understanding of the strategic difference between anchor text and links, would help webmasters differentiate between what Google understands as organic...
It was the hardest crack down on unethical SEO tactics, spam sites, and fishy backlinks. Named after the notorious link spam slayer? The update penalized low quality sites, low quality content/duplicate content; generally content deemed not...
If someone says they can guarantee you No.ranking within 30 days, then they are either going to spam you to the top with short lived results or take your money and run. It may sound like an upsell at first, but having quality content on your...
If we're seen as a group who huddles to protect our own rather than proactively identifying and discrediting spam and fake content, we'll be held in contempt by more and more of the web and technology world.
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 It sounds like Google is planning more significant changes to their algorithm...
So curious, Horowitz started to reach out to the numerous people at Google she had worked with -- AdSense, where their partnership with Google had made both companies a good deal of money -- their niched specific site has a great online audience...
Google, Spam, Bing & "Stings" But, as with link spam and content farms, certainly these issues can be addressed, too. However, I qualified that response by saying "we'd need to create a helluva lot of unique, resourceful, quality content to show...
Google search and search engine spam - Official Google Blog Social Media Links and SEO -- Spam Ye Not! Increasingly, the quality of Google's search results and business practices are being called into question.
Links: While I hate to say it, Bing's engine certainly appears susceptible to link spam. Quality: Have high-quality content. While Bing is no Wolfram|Alpha and is absolutely a commercial engine, they aren't nearly as invasive in their commercialism...
