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. If you write a blog post, you’ve got something to say, you’re not just creating words and...
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. When blogs hit the scene, we launched the BOTW Blog Directory to help bloggers connect with an audience.
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? Those salad days, as fun and easy as they were, are the reason why we're creating a new legacy, entirely separate from the legacy of spam.
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...
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. Guest blog posts can be very beneficial, but not on unrelated websites. Don’t use spammy blog networks or buy links from shady...
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 you're blogging for your current visitors (i.e.visitors that entered outside your blog or who...
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.
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.
If you don’t have a clear plan and strategy in place then, you may get a few quick wins, but in the main you are really just creating additional noise and new forms of spam. Mike Grehan, Publisher of SEW and ClickZ, shares some great thoughts and...
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. The guidelines state “As a result, sites featuring mainly content from affiliate networks...
Do enough to get on their radar and add value to their conversations – don’t stalk or spam them! Whether it’s social media submissions, social sharing, blog coverage/roundups – they’ve all been linked to because the post has got the attention of a...
When analyzing the quantity of tweaks and improvements made to Google search functionality based on details culled and classified from the Inside Search blog, Google is actually exerting more effort on query freshness, better short answers, and...
A non-cynical view of Google’s most recent algorithm changes (Penguin, Panda…) suggests the motivation behind them – reducing web spam in search, punishing links in bad neighborhoods etc.is at least, in part, driven by a move towards a "long-term...
By this time next year, Cutts hopes people are less likely to do link buying, blog comment spam, etc. Then earlier this year Google sent out messages for everything but egregious black hat spam. When SEO becomes an issue is when spam comes into...
While Baidu generally do not acknowledge such changes, the Chinese search giant’s engineer from the anti-spam team known only as "Lee" told webmasters that an update on June 21 has been enforced for anti-spam measures to target poor quality websites.
