Panda update put a dent in it, but do we have to rely on Google to constantly police us? If we're seen as a group who huddles to protect our own rather than proactively identifying and discrediting spam and fake content, we'll be held in contempt...
Below we'll discuss the less-spammy applications of +1 marketing that an average business could engage in proudly (or at least, without looking over their shoulder to make sure the Google+ police aren’t watching).
During the SpamPolice session at SMX, Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Sasi Parthasarathy both confirmed this. One Man's Spam Is Another's Good Result: Google's New Approach To Spam by Frank Watson & Thom Craver
People Search Google For Dialing The Police. Google search and search engine spam - Official Google Blog Social Media Links and SEO -- Spam Ye Not! Google's Niels Provos battles malware on the Web - CNET News
Korean Police Say Google Collected Private Data Illegally - PCWorld Blekko Launches Spam Clock To Keep Pressure On Google - Search Engine Land Differences in Mobile Smartphone Ranking and Desktop Web Ranking in Google Search - Natural Search...
Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, but the Australian Federal Police won't prosecute, saying the chances of a successful prosecution are "low. GoogleSpam Czar Matt Cutts Calling For Questions...
In our highly social online environment, the true spampolice is us. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are the obvious examples, but there are also user reviews, comments in various forums, spam complaints, blog postings, news articles, and more.
However, you never know how long they'll work for or when/if you will be busted by the spampolice. I even went so far as to provide an audit of the American Express Web site and mentioned some of the items that they might want to resolve to help...
This would be like trying to police Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park and throw out people who are cursing. But could you imagine trying to police this growing mob? I recently received some spam messages from someone through LinkedIn who wanted me to...
I want to scream to the spampolice at the major search engines. Then, I came across a "competitor" (I don't really think of other SEO firms as "competitors," per se) Web site that ranked number one on Google for a very competitive keyword.
Using standards to police ourselves translates to predictable results. As I said there, I don't think there is a need to police standards, more to outline them so customers can have an idea of what to look for as well as new people in our space...
Google isn't even the Internet police. One of the people involved in the comment spam fighting problem within Google was an unknown engineer named Matt Cutts, now Google's famous, unofficial chief Webspam fighter.
In other words, Google knows that it could potentially lose customers at any
time, so it will self-police itself. Anderson of Wired asks about the impact AdSense has on
fueling spam
across the web -- search spam, comment spam, trackback spam and...
Rules Require Effective SpamPolice: Debates among marketers of what's
search spam continue, but the search engines themselves aren't exactly helpful
in clarifying things. MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: The first...
Rules Require Effective SpamPolice - From 2004, revisits how search
engines have various spam rules but also how they don't disclose if someone's
been yanked from an index, something that would probably help site owners.
The list changes over time,
based on events such as the recent police shootings in the southern town of If you're removing material from search
results for various reasons -- spam, government censorship, whatever -- disclose
that everywhere, not...
They all employ legions of "spampolice" who work hard to try to keep spam out of the indexes, or eliminate it if it manages to creep past the junk-detection algorithms. But how long, exactly, does it take before spam is eliminated from search...
Police arrest man for allegedly setting up fake Yahoo Japan Web site. And with Google operating one of the biggest blogging services, it's not surprising that Blogger will be host to a few search spam sites.
How about letting anyone add any link to any ODP category, while the editors serve as Wikipedia editors seem to do, as high-end police force to keep spam out. OK, maybe the ODP could be restructured where anyone could tag pages based on the ODP...
New "Link Police" in Google Algorithm? Has Google finally said 'enough is enough' with link spam? Many of you use different link and advertising campaigns to get the word out about your web site (s). A Yahoo patent application was published on...