Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse on Bing, so just forget them. Don't mass replicate your title tags. And nothing is more basically important to a site than properly written title tags.
We know for certain that they couldn’t fix the link spam issue alone and so they needed to create a “game” scenario that ensured social cooperation. Yes, there were areas that they weren’t completely satisfied with, but this was not the motivator...
The Sophos spokesperson told the BBC, "Spammers and malware authors can mass-produce false Facebook profiles to help them spread dangerous links and spam, and trick people into befriending them. Is it realistic that these spam puppeteers are...
In a 2008 interview with Eric Enge, Google Web Spam Czar Matt Cutts talked about link building – specifically, how to do it ethically and within Google’s guidelines. Where Panda set out to rid the web of mass-produced, low quality content, this...
Most SEOs aspire to be genius inbound marketers, eschewing 'the tricks' and take it upon themselves to promote ethical awareness around search engine spam. Article Picture Credits: iRobots.txt by @RichardFergie, Spam's Labyrinth by @LordManley...
From section 6.1: “If you find a page to be ‘spammy,’ but you don’t feel comfortable saying that the webmaster definitely designed the page using deceptive web design techniques, you should assign a Maybe Spam flag.
Google has access to a wide number of signals regarding user behavior that they haven't had in previous spam battles. Doubling up on the Spam This spam +1 networks provide a signal similar to the link profiles Google’s dealt with over the years.
Purchasing links from prominent directories or spending time mass-submitting directory entries have been established as gray-hat SEO tactics, and are often employed by spam websites in an attempt to crawl up the SERP.
Don’t sell with your subject line — that’s what spammers do and spam gets deleted. Mass mailing bloggers the same email and only changing the first name in the template. If fact, do everything the opposite a mass mailer would do (e.g.send your...
Hence, mass emailing and link exchange spam. With a poor subject line or an email address that triggered a spam filter, your message may never have passed in front of human eyes. When it seems like all of our emails are just being sent into a...
Discussing this meme with SEW contributor Garrett French, he commented, "I think the criticisms are really an attempt to curb the link spam abuse with guest blogging tactic. They say that some link builders indiscriminately send mass e-mails to...
The other factor that must be central in your mind: one authoritative link can potentially be worth 10,000 times more than one of those blog spam links. After all, forum spam, blog spam, and WordPress template spam is pretty cheap, but you aren't...
If popular sites are suffering under a flood of spam, I sympathize with their decision to add nofollow their links and put barriers to stop spammers--as long as they don't forget who made them popular to begin with.
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. Yahoo Layoffs Top 1,000 Employees in U.S.Yahoo layoffs may top 1,000...
PageRank contributions have been used for link spam detection and in the classification of web pages. Their work goes a long way toward solving the mysteries of Google PageRank -- and fighting the spam that threatens to degrade the relevancy of all...
The second thing to look at is the trustworthiness of the results, or—to be more frank—the excess or lack of spam therein. Do social search engines prevent SEO spam by giving more power to their audience and less to SEO professionals, or do they...
MSN/Live Ponies Up About The Referrer Spam, SEO Scoop Headlines SVP: Super Mass vs. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related...
Past Time For MSN To Pony Up To The Real Truth About Referrer Spam, SEO Scoop He combines his past experience in offline branding and mass media with his passion for online marketing in his blog, Think About Search.
Large Scale Bulk Spam Uploaded to Google MapsMike Blumenthal has uncovered a case where a computer repair company is using mass uploads to Google Maps to generate national business. We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts...
Large Scale Bulk Spam Uploaded to Google MapsMike Blumenthal has uncovered a case where a computer repair company is using mass uploads to Google Maps to generate national business. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
