Not only will it be a longer-term effort that just spamming people for links, but the effect will be longer lasting and way more authentic. Do you get queasy at the thought of the term "link building"?
“Can you name a city in New Jersey that doesn’t have an E in its name? It’s not easy…” So say the multitude of recent Facebook posts that have inundated the feed of pretty much everyone on Facebook. It’s easy, and it’s so simple that even Great...
The strategy of spamming wire services with sales pitches or informative articles under a press release header has been recognized, and Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has said in not to expect much power from these types of links just...
Your link removal efforts need to be proportionate to your link spamming efforts. You know it’s going to be a bad (day, week, month …), when Google sends you one of these: Receiving an email like this is scary.
In December Facebook said that it was updating its messaging tools and running a test that would see a charge put in place to discourage spamming. Facebook will let its billion users send a message directly to its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, but only if...
This tactic requires balance, though; there is a fine line between promoting relevant content and hashtag spamming. Tweeting from events and around conference hashtags is a great strategy for both individuals and companies looking to build their...
Meaning, not spamming, not violating, but just not understanding how the algorithm operates can result in a loss of visitors to your site. Much has already been written about the Google Penguin updates, and the impact these have had on websites and...
My overall perception of the Penguin update was that it was designed primarily to attack unnatural link practices and web spamming techniques, as well as a host of less focused topics such as AdSense usage and internal linking queues.
Just because a site's scraping content or spamming doesn't necessarily mean that they're part of a link network. Google has always claimed to be able to find networks of bad links (link farms, etc) algorithmically, although many in the SEO...
I was going to say the widely used term “keyword-rich” but that is often misunderstood and usually results in the spamming of site URLs. One of the many important on-page SEO elements is having a keyword-relevant URL for a given site page.
Lastly, some 1.5 percent of users (around 14 million accounts) are "undesirable", which refers to user profiles that "are intended to be used for purposes that violate our terms of service, such as spamming", Facebook explained in the filing.
This is not blog comment spamming, this is engaging in a conversation relevant to your website's topic. Are you looking for ways to market your small business website with a limited budget? Whether it’s with established sites such as Google and...
Penguin’s penalization of sites who have been spamming aims to improve the quality of the SERP for searchers. Google’s most recent Penguin update has caused a storm of controversy since it began cracking down on search engine enemy No.unnatural...
So, creating links in your user profile for the intent of needlessly pushing your own site is tantamount to spamming the community. So he reached out to Search Engine Watch for some answers. What follows is a cautionary tale of missteps towards the...
Most SEOs claim that spamming is only increasing relevance for queries not related to the topic(s) of the page. Please note that according to our definition, all types of actions intended to boost ranking, without improving the true value of a page...
This doesn't mean that content spamming or link farming will somehow become acceptable (it won’t). CEO Larry Page responded by explaining how he might search for one of his friends who had a common name.
It's no longer the case that simply spamming your website with the phrase “cheap car insurance” will get you a front-page listing. The inbound link is a powerful piece of optimization. So much so that some bloggers and businesses don't care how...
Anything that has a higher chance of success than getting links from spamming people. Along with much of the rest of the country, this week I submitted my official NCAA tournament bracket to the office pool.
Really, unless you’re a brain dead spamming SEO, we should be chasing most of those anyway. My name is Dave and over the next few months I shall be bringing my own geeky style of SEO to you, the fine readership of Search Engine Watch.
In fact, there’s one firm that is driving me absolutely crazy because they’re spamming a client of mine with emails. For six years now, I’ve been the founder, CEO, and president of a search engine optimization company, and I’ve maintained one...
