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. Search has moved beyond just finding keywords, but it still doesn’t read all these billions of...
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. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking...
For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. Think of it like McAfee's site advisor, but focused on fighting spam and scams versus viruses and malware. I thought to myself, was he using comment spam...
This will probably lead to some original and creative campaigns, but also to commercial spam on user-created topics, such as the Twitter trending topics based on jokes, that brands often use in a clumsy way to try and look cool," Gaudette said.
Another easy way to generate links to your blog posts in a way that isn't spam is via systems like Zemanta and other content distribution systems. Because a blog post is on your domain, it can be used to drive traffic to more conversion oriented...
Primarily it’s up to the search engines, the social networks, and the site owners to prevent it as much as they can, but flagging spam where you can will at least give them a hand in identifying this web junk.
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.
Before launching into nearly 50 recent examples of real web pages identified as spam, Google explains: “These pages are examples of 'pure spam. While Google will never be accused of offering concrete examples of what exactly a high-quality website...
Spam it and your brand will get burnt. They’re the pages that have to rank for localized terms. Local landing pages for hotel chains, car rental firms etc.are of critical importance because they perform two crucial functions:
However, just because it's considered to be a professional networking site doesn't mean that it's not full of spam. Like other networks, Pinterest is plagued by spam and fake accounts, but after the links from pins were nofollowed things calmed...
You have one chance to make a good first impression on the spam team – don’t blow it. Nothing bugs the spam team more than a reconsideration request that simply says, “My site now adheres to the guidelines.
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.
Penguin then came along and cleaned up web spam and tried to put an end to black hat practices. Google’s pursuit for relevancy really kick started the year as Google Search Plus Your World launched to solve issues regarding trust and authority of...
Important note: You should never, ever use automated translation – but if you must due to the nature of your industry or the size of your website, then make sure you use your robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling any auto...
Better web spam algorithms, the surge in mobile devices, and the explosion in social media are just a few of the factors in the process of blowing apart our collective vision of digital marketing. Regardless of how it's done, the result is a large...
Designed to reduce web spam, the update initially caused a good deal of consternation for many, with reports of sites unfairly caught in the update. Google added reviews for many local queries from recently acquired Zagat and Google+ pages.
Spam forums and blog comments: You hopefully wouldn't do this with non-affiliate sites either, but generally speaking this is a very poor way to build links. If you wade through pages of reviews and comparisons that allow you to make a decision...
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. Google has never had an issue with the quality of search engine results pages (SERPs) per se.
