The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the content marketing world with an even steeper rise in blog comment spam, links, and dubious and irrelevant requests to webmasters and blog owners to consider crap guest posts.
Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. Email marketing, social media, community engagement in forums, and guest blog posting are efficient...
He detailed that the new Penguin was specifically going to target blackhat spam, but would be a significantly larger impact on spam than the original Penguin and subsequent Penguin updates have had. Twitter is full of people commenting on the new...
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...
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. If you write a blog post, you’ve got something to say, you’re not just creating words and...
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. As they get bigger, they must deal with a tsunami of...
Your Links On Pinterest May Be Stopping Traffic In Its Tracks – Marketing LandIf you're using a URL shortener on Pinterest, beware it may take users to a page that says: “Suspicious Link: This link redirects to another site, it may link to spam or...
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. Did you purchase links from a paid blog network? Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a...
Users of BOTW can be assured that the sites they find are great resources, with no spam or irrelevant sites. When blogs hit the scene, we launched the BOTW Blog Directory to help bloggers connect with an audience.
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? Those salad days, as fun and easy as they were, are the reason why we're creating a new legacy, entirely separate from the legacy of spam.
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. In other words, links that aren't spammy and available just for the taking (no more blog comments, web 2.0 microsites...
Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming a one-trick pony and looking like spam. Often, we see content creation as a piecemeal endeavor – write a blog post, make an infographic, develop a white paper. Since your content team is already creating and...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Coming Soon: Bing Ads to Launch in Australia and New Zealand – Bing Ads Blog
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. And many times they'll drop a note about it on their blog: "I was recently featured...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. Guest blog posts can be very beneficial, but not on unrelated websites. Don’t use spammy blog networks or buy links from shady...
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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. When you're blogging for your current visitors (i.e.visitors that entered outside your blog or who...
SEO cocitation was a hot topic many years ago as Google introduced anti-spam updates geared toward devaluing links from poor-quality blog networks. This is particularly helpful to Google in their pursuit to de-value links from spammy blog networks...
Google wouldn’t be wasting their time creating the Penguin Algorithm and imposing Manual Link Spam penalties if backlinks didn’t still make a big difference. The Google spam team spends all day every day routing out paid links.
