Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"? If you have received this warning, Google has labeled your site or parts of it straight out spam.
There are many cases where webmasters know they have manual web spam action taken against their site, but they can't figure out what is triggering the spam action, or they are confused and believe the wrong thing has caused the manual spam action.
Like spam reports, I believe the Link Disavow files go directly to Google's web spam team which is charged with developing scalable solutions. I think it's entirely possible that the Disavow Links tool is nothing more than a new feature added to...
Comment spam. Web marketing has seen incredible growth and development in the last ten years. Every major Google algorithm update is followed by weeks and weeks of posts addressing the specifics of the particular change.
For example, you might have a worksheet for directories, another for comment spam, another for article sites, etc. The approach I'm providing is meant to reveal which links have been removed from pages that still remain on the web.
It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except, for one fact – Google is not building spam fighting algorithms to evaluate each individual site on the web. They are building spam fighting algos that improve the overall...
Google spam detection is all about patterns in your link profile. You can choose between various solutions that run as a desktop application or as web-based service. When you've put a lot of effort in acquiring links to your website, you want to...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. Gone are the days when a web developer builds a site, the SEO consultant optimizes the site, a conversion expert looks at the...
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). By 2000, an emerging focus was CRM (customer relationship management...
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
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.
