Although there has been no official announcement or comment by the social media giant, the long-rumored idea of Facebook incorporating hashtags – the ubiquitous # symbol used on Twitter to make certain keywords or topics searchable – gathered...
We used to comment on blog posts and in forums mainly, but now we have all these other ways of expressing our opinions, bonding with others, and promoting ourselves. Tons of spammy template sites are built in order to capture rankings and traffic...
I really can't comment on it in any specific way, but you are right that these algorithms do represent new types of capabilities for us. Google's Penguin update, and Panda a year earlier, marked the advent of a whole new approach to spam fighting.
Comment on relevant blogs and sites without doing so in a spammy manner. I wouldn't suggest popping your link into a casual comment because that's not a good way to build long-term link exposure, but using your site for your comment signature can...
For those who don’t, Cutts is the head of the web Spam team at Google. And Cutts may actually want to clarify his comment, in this instance, so that folks know. If you could write a post that provides resourceful information for your target...
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...
Leave a comment below. However, you never know how long they'll work for or when/if you will be busted by the spam police. Those days for "credit card" rankings changed around July 1, if you refer to Aaron Wall's post on this topic.
By using an algorithm type method to rank the spam-karma on a comment, it eliminates the need to moderate comments. Very rarely do we see a rogue comment slip through using this tool. We’ve made it our choice for controlling spam comments.
This is done because it is very difficult for webmasters to "fake" good links, in the way they might try to spam search engines by manipulating the words on their web pages. Some of the search engines will index ALT text and comment information.
The main reason for the development of nofollow was blog comment spam. It's also worth mentioning that nofollow is not widely adopted today, so as a spam strategy, link comment spam might not yet be completely obsolete.
He promised not to "comment on what any of it means" but at least we know Google is part of the borg. Last week we reported that Google may have revealed the spam scores to the world. Ringtone Spam In Google News, InsideGoogle
The methods deployed to rank the pages seemed to include excessive use of subdomains, cloaking, content theft scraping, alexa traffic boosting and blog comment spam. Today's search podcast covers concerns that Google is letting too much spam...
It demonstrates once again how public spam reports can be so effective and how big major web sites really don't get the "death penalty," when it comes to spamming. In contrast, people still complain that nothing happens when they file spam...
Free porn, Google, spam, Internet censorship, and the Supreme Court post, which highlights something Gary and I have written about for ages. Want to comment or discuss? Microsoft typically does not comment on specific government inquiries.
Seven Recently Published Patent Applications from Microsoft Deal with Computation of Web Page Ranking, Calculating a Document's Importance, and Search Spam Detection and More Want to discuss, comment or read what others are saying?
Want to discuss or comment on this story? You heard right: Sullivan concluded his keynote by lightheartedly rallying the "troops" against the evil forces that would drag this successful industry down, indicating to any search engine reps listening...
Want to discuss, comment or contribute news? Matt, officially a Google software engineer, covers not all SEO being spam, no one being able to guarantee a top ranking free listing on Google, as Talking With Google's Matt Cutts - Interview Of Matt...
Sorry you were upset I felt like I had to comment on a piece written by a major IT journalist who thinks blogs aren't part of WEB search. Stick to the bigger problem that for the blog RSS alerts I get, there's still a ton of spam and off-topic...
Yes, except that blog/feed search services are increasingly encountering the same spam problems that web search has had to grapple with. Want to comment or discuss? As blog spam continues to grow -- IE, fake" doorway page style blogs -- the blog...
