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. Bing Offers– Discover Deals from Across the Web in One Place – Bing Search BlogIt's pretty...
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. As they get bigger, they must deal with a tsunami 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...
Users of BOTW can be assured that the sites they find are great resources, with no spam or irrelevant sites. Best of the Web, a directory of all the content on the web, turns 19 on April 20. And as social exploded, we introduced social networking...
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? We were forced to use our brains to build links, and that's where the legacy of spam started to slow down. Those salad days, as fun and easy as they were, are the reason why...
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. In other words, links that aren't spammy and available just for the taking (no more blog comments, web 2.0 microsites...
For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. I thought to myself, was he using comment spam to gain exact match anchor text links? Upon digging into the ratings, I noticed a review that said, "profile...
To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead Matt Cutts the algorithm filter has "iterated" to date but there will be a "next generation" coming that will have a major impact on SERPs. And while there have been many examples of this being badly executed...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. But to the average small business owner these constant changes are mystifying or even maddening.
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. When blogs first hit the web in a real way they were a central mechanism for informing and...
The Penguin algorithm, initially released last April, was designed to reduce web spam and also hit website that had link profiles that appeared unnatural. You can expect another Google Panda update to roll out this Friday or Monday, according to...
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. There is an extremely complicated web of providers of local data with many supplying data to others. Looking for 18 simple local and social search strategies that are relatively simple to implement and should...
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...
With search engines constantly evolving and fighting obvious spam techniques, bloggers have been subject to a flood of guest post requests by link builders looking for white hat link building techniques.
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.
