Comment spam. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Only rely on desktop search? Relying on any one tactic or factor within search engines is fine in the short term, but in the long term will assuredly...
They are building spam fighting algos that improve the overall quality of search results. It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except, for one fact – Google is not building spam fighting algorithms to evaluate each...
Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from the competition, and has been since launching in 2010. Today, Blekko unveiled a new layout for search results that aims to take the guesswork out of intent by offering...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? SEO isn't just search engine optimization anymore. These are actual titles from article in the top search results for [content marketing and SEO]. It always has been, and always will be – well...
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. This prospect creates fear for many small businesses who depend on search engine optimization (SEO...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. The Search Engine Watch website is a great example of modern design with creative, yet simple elements, in it's navigation...
One of the common misconceptions of marketing automation is that it’s strictly for B2B, and is essentially an email system pre-loaded with time-released messages (or even spam). Lead Generation – associated advertising, social media, word of mouth...
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. Link – Search Engine Roundtable Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For...
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. Social channels have a way to go to perfect their...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
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...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Build a glossary: The Search Engine Marketing Glossary at SEOBook is packed with useful definitions and explanations.
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Hackers Are Smarter: SEOs, Be Prepared – Search Engine Roundtable Squidoo Now NoFollows Their Outbound Links...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. PPC should be in the marketing portfolio already, as it is an excellent complement to search engine optimization.
Forum spam Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot industry topics and here are the answers that Gregory Cox (GC), David Burgess (DB), Caroline Lyons (CL), David Torchiano (DT), and Derk Doijer...
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.
Anything else can be seen as a form of search engine spam. Dealing with duplicate content and effectively funneling internal link value are just a few examples. Google accepts a lot of additional HTML instructions to let you help it, but it still...
Izik is a new search experience built specifically with the iPad and Android tablets in mind using Blekko's algorithms, sans-spam thanks to human curating. Number two search engine, Bing, also feels mobile search should be different from mobile...
I lump these together because even though they are quite different is many ways, they are quite similar in that they attract link spam like flies. A continued increase in spam, and more blogs eliminating comments altogether.
Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse on Bing, so just forget them. The title tag should contain important keywords to help the search engine determine what the page is about.
