The Legacy of Spam
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? The legacy of spam didn't build itself. Spam was the unfortunate byproduct of these strategies, but we weren't yet aware of the implications.
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? The legacy of spam didn't build itself. Spam was the unfortunate byproduct of these strategies, but we weren't yet aware of the implications.
Even weirder is that the techniques used to rank this spam are as old as (if not older than) Google itself. The only difference between now and then is the period of time a spam result will “survive” in the SERPs.
This new initiative is designed to share that information, allowing other advertisers to shut out or shut down fraudulent or spam advertisers. Google released a short video in March, in which Engineering Director David Baker explains how they fight...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live In terms of SEOmoz itself, we've been working on some research around spam for a while now, but it's still a long ways off.
But what is link spam? Essentially if someone is keyword stuffing around given terms, they will be in a more unnatural usage than user queries and known good pages.some snippets taken from my post "Web Spam; the Definitive Guide")
Or is it a reflection of how tempted we are to spam the search engines? Man Killed in a Street Fight, Jedi Style Pretty new! It's May 4th, which is unofficially Star Wars day. However, on the web we may as well agree that today is officially Star...
Rich Snippets Proliferate (and So Does Spam) Since you can't fight the importance of Google+ to SEO, you might as well embrace it. Here are what I think will be four enterprise SEO trends to watch in 2012.
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.
With the abundance of SEO spam on the market, novice SEOs (a.k.a. White hat tactics fight for the greater good of a quality user experience. If you're an SEO Jedi, black hat tactics undoubtedly tempt you on a regular basis.
Paid Links, Spam, Google and Overstock.com got a lot of attention. And just recently, spam and abuse issues in Google Places got Google moving – a little. Meanwhile, the fight over Android’s technology between Oracle and Google continues, with...
Given the interest in search trends and top referrers, this type of spam has been around for quite some time. In this era of racing for dominance, Google and Bing sweat the numbers, fight for market share and always push for search numbers.
Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer, said on the Official Google Blog that "English-language spam in Google's results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English.
Search engine upstart, Blekko, continuing it's quest to form an alliance against spam has partnered with Stack Overflow, "a programming Q&A site built by programmers for programmers". Bing and Yahoo will allow advertisers to use trademarked terms...
Document Level Classifiers and Google Spam Identification - SEO by the Sea Seems Google may need to add spam filters if their real time search results are not to become inundated with irrelevant information.
Spam? An EU investigation, the fight to acquire ITA software, Street View, allegations of bias, the never-ending Viacom situation, China, lawsuits, and mounting criticism of their baby: organic results.
Cutts announced Google's intention to up the fight against spam in an Official Google Blog post last Friday. Google's Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google's search...
How to help Google identify web spam - Google Webmaster Central Blog Where Google is failing on data collection, privacy, SEO, spam, and more. This was a fight-filled week for Google. The Importance of Localized Content - Local SEO Takes Center...
As a result, Google began to actively fight link spam, making steady progress against the spammers. Spam Using Facebook or Twitter to directly contact potential linkers as a substitute for e-mail (which might be spam filtered).
They'll be checked for spam and then shortened using a twt.tl root link. Spam has been a problem for Twitter. If you're a regular user of the service, I'm sure you've had your fair share of Direct Message spam.
Twitter Fights Spam with New Reporting Feature Posted by Nathania Johnson Oct 15, 2009 Twitter is making it easier to fight profiles which users feel are spam. When you're on the profile that seems very spammy, just look for the "Report as Spam...
