SEO Industry: Police Thyself? If we don't want Big Daddy Google to continue to try to police our space, we need to start controlling the corner and the conversation, on a national level. Why not just go after spammers anymore?
Below we'll discuss the less-spammy applications of +1 marketing that an average business could engage in proudly (or at least, without looking over their shoulder to make sure the Google+ police aren’t watching).
In our highly social online environment, the true spampolice is us. Spammers still can run a bot that jams thousands of comments into inactive forums and blogs, but the search engines aren't going to put much weight on that.
This would be like trying to police Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park and throw out people who are cursing. But could you imagine trying to police this growing mob? At the forums, we call those people spammers and dump them.
Google isn't even the Internet police. Spammers were still spamming, links were still being sold, and at least one war in the Middle East was still going on. An interesting tag started on a simple enough mission to rid the world of spammers has...
Not much, fortunately, but we occasionally have to police out the irrelevant link or the link hidden in a period or comma. Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own from Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny is another call for some smarter
way of deciding what...
Of course, search engines do police for spam. BugTraq: Spammers can hide behind 'Email a friend/article' scripts. What's spam? Google is especially famous for this, preferring to seek "algorithmic" solutions to removing spam than perhaps to react...
Escaping the net UK police are unable to close down extreme foreign websites. Don't you guys think that the spammers have long since stopped using the meta refresh tag and are using .htaccess like the rest of us?
In a Search Engine Strategies session entitled "The Search Engine SpamPolice," representatives from search engines Inktomi, Google, FAST Search, and web directories LookSmart and the Open Directory Project explored the issue of spamming and...
In a Search Engine Strategies session entitled "The Search Engine SpamPolice," representatives from search engines Inktomi, Google, FAST Search, and web directories LookSmart and the Open Directory Project explored the issue of spamming and...
In a session entitled "The SpamPolice," representatives from Google, Inktomi, and FAST explored the issue of spamming the search engines. Those who take extreme measures to rank well on search engines are likely to be labeled spammers.
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. Also, spammers often use numbers for their pages, such as 141 in this case. Using cloaking software, spammers can even prevent visitors from...
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. Using cloaking software, spammers can even prevent visitors from seeing that they are using someone else's pages.
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. Also, spammers often use numbers for their pages, such as 141 in this case. It's been a fairly common brute-force method used by spammers for some...
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. It's been a fairly common brute-force method used by spammers for some time. Using cloaking software, spammers can even prevent visitors from...
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. It's been a fairly common brute-force method used by spammers for some time. Using cloaking software, spammers can even prevent visitors from...
People who wonder why their own sites don't appear for a particular term are often the best spampolice. Spammers have used them for ages, setting up hundreds of pages to draw in traffic. Are Bridge Pages Spam?
People who wonder why their own sites don't appear for a particular term are often the best spampolice. Spammers have used them for ages, setting up hundreds of pages to draw in traffic. Unfortunately (depending on your view), IP delivery makes it...
People who wonder why their own sites don't appear for a particular term are often the best spampolice. Spammers have used them for ages, setting up hundreds of pages to draw in traffic. Unfortunately (depending on your view), IP delivery makes it...