Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. The information isn't there, the structure isn't there, it's slow, it's hard to navigate, and it doesn't appear in the search...
We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore. Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. It doesn't help anyone, and it's really just a slightly more...
One of the common misconceptions of marketing automation is that it’s strictly for B2B, and is essentially an email system pre-loaded with time-released messages (or even spam). From search marketing to social media, these are business game...
He believes that the changes will really make a difference with the quality of the search results, as well as impact the amount of spam that is showing up. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about...
The Good Ol' Way #5: Ad Spam But if you're doing it today, make sure it's original, unique, relevant and well written or you put yourself at a risk for potentially vanishing from the search results. Wanted to rank of Viagra?
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 Bing Offers– Discover Deals from Across the Web in One Place...
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...
If no manual action was taken, then you'll receive an automated message that tells you that there was no spam action found on your site. Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your penalty removed and...
Users of BOTW can be assured that the sites they find are great resources, with no spam or irrelevant sites. We need to step up our offering to stay competitive in the Local space, so we are redoing a lot of the categorization and making big...
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? We were forced to use our brains to build links, and that's where the legacy of spam started to slow down. Those salad days, as fun and easy as they were, are the reason why...
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. If your site continues to have trouble in our search results, please see this article for help with diagnosing the issue.
And while there have been many examples of this being badly executed, with lots of site owners and SEO professionals complaining of injustice, it is clear that web spam engineers have collected a lot of information over recent months and have...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Nearby renamed Local Search on iOS. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will...
Sort out link spam. Point being, even with all Google's efforts to thwart link spam and manipulative link practices, paid links are still prevalent and still work. A former member of Matt Cutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying...
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...
This will probably lead to some original and creative campaigns, but also to commercial spam on user-created topics, such as the Twitter trending topics based on jokes, that brands often use in a clumsy way to try and look cool," Gaudette said.
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. Essentially, blogs, done right, can be excellent sources of search traffic (and traffic from other...
