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...
After slamming Google AdWords for taking control away from customers, Bing says "…we do not believe bundling together mobile, desktop and tablet advertising in an opaque manner is in the best interest of our customer base or the industry at large.
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.
Last year Google unleashed the most aggressive campaign of major algo updates ever in its crusade to battle rank spam. When publishing content on our own sites, we ask ourselves a few simple quality control questions:
By improving their algorithm and supplementing their spam control with Human Quality Raters, Google has made it increasingly difficult to manipulate search rankings via spammy backlinks. The Penguin losers have a link portfolio in which 20 percent...
Now you may see your search rankings significantly lowered for just not watching your comment spam or for having too many ads on a page above the fold. Not moderating my comment spam might just mean I have a small team of people, not that the...
Yes, it wouldn’t hurt you, but I can definitely see Google using it as a trigger to perhaps manually spam check those sites that are being flagged repeatedly by webmasters or used to detect footprints left by link spammers.
Whilst Google's 12th birthday and 13th birthday was characterized by a sense of volatility reflected in radical changes to leadership and hard line approaches to spam, Google's 14th birthday couldn't be more different.
Take Control of the SUX! However, when Google gives you no real control over the display and has made it clear to keep playing you must add microformats to your pages, which they use to take your content and put on their site, who really benefits?
A big change seems to be underway on Google, most likely designed to give brands more control of the search results associated with their brand names. For one, sources of unverifiable sources of data (a.k.a.spam), such as Ripoff Report.
For example, if you're writing about pest control (and for the record I do not work with any pest control clients), then maybe write a piece about how you're never more than a few feet away from a spider.
Removing the majority of their link profile is going to be a really tough task, unless they have direct control over the link networks or can communicate with the owners of the link networks to ask them to remove the links.
The first set (1-3) are all the paid links, which are clearly spam - but I’ve included them as an anatomical guide to webspam. It's a testament to how poor Google's spam detection algorithms actually are that prior tactics were even rewarded.
The "Control" Variable Such updates and events include Panda, the notice of death detection and a Penguin web spam algorithmic update. In the past few months Google has really upped the game in terms of manually and algorithmically adjusting for...
But this situation seems like it has the potential to actually create more spam, not less. That indeed links that are out of your control may actually hurt you and that you need to actually go and tell Google that they aren't yours.
I’ve written before about some of the absurd link spam I’ve seen and the ridiculous comments that have gotten caught in my blog spam filter. Link spam isn't working. To spend a single dime of your precious marketing budget on a service that tries...
Hackers have sought to take control of the accounts to spread spam messages and embarrass social networking firms. Facebook has unveiled an authenticated account system which will seek to verify profiles of celebrities and popular figures.
But control of the domains isn't all that Chanel won. Some feel this judge was extending well beyond his jurisdiction for a District Court ruling by handing control of hundreds of sites (owned by webmasters across the globe) and a chunk of the...
By gradually increasing the amount of textual spam (combining all types we could think of), we wanted to find out when certain domains would be affected and in which manner. Because we knew Panda was a machine learning algorithm, we expected there...
that Google would make numerous improvements in a matter of weeks: to set up two new data centers – including one on the East Coast – to freshen the index by crawling more frequently, to reduce spam in results, and to meet strict limits on latency...
