Every SEO Silver Bullet Will Fail
Comment spam. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Web marketing has seen incredible growth and development in the last ten years. Only rely on desktop search?
Comment spam. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Web marketing has seen incredible growth and development in the last ten years. Only rely on desktop search?
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...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. The Search Engine Watch website is a great example of modern design with creative, yet simple elements, in it's navigation...
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). Lead Generation – associated advertising, social media, word of mouth...
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. Link – Search Engine Roundtable Bing Offers– Discover Deals from Across the Web in One Place...
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. Social channels have a way to go to perfect their...
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. Build a glossary: The Search Engine Marketing Glossary at SEOBook is packed with useful definitions and explanations.
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. PPC should be in the marketing portfolio already, as it is an excellent complement to search engine optimization.
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.
Izik is a new search experience built specifically with the iPad and Android tablets in mind using Blekko's algorithms, sans-spam thanks to human curating. Number two search engine, Bing, also feels mobile search should be different from mobile...
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.
Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse on Bing, so just forget them. Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide information about a web page for the search engines and website users.
Penguin then came along and cleaned up web spam and tried to put an end to black hat practices. After all, YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine.also saw Bing begin to challenge Google more forcibly than before.
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...
If we look at some of the most competitive terms in Google we will see a search engine filled with spam and hacked domains ranking in the top 10. Google's learning process apparently involves trying to solve the problem of web spam by applying the...
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. This change was significant - not only because of the prominence Google is now giving results from...
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. Google has made it hard for anyone to gain quick results by trying to...
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.
