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. 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. Don’t use spammy blog networks or buy links from shady websites. PPC should be in the marketing portfolio already, as it is an...
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...
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...
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.
Whereas even a year ago I would have said that sites appearing high in the SERPs would be good sites to contact, due to the truly amazing amount of spam and hacked sites that appear high up for certain search terms, I'd say you need to visit the...
Well according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, you must first use as many keywords as possible; the optimal keyword density is actually 77 percent. Cutts said the Google web spam team doesn’t use Google Analytics data.
The site owner hadn’t appreciated how profoundly these spam tactics went against Google’s mission, which is purportedly to provide the most relevant results to users. Comment spam. Google’s most recent Penguin update has caused a storm of...
The characteristics of a spam blog, otherwise known as splogs, are poorly written posts about a wide array of disconnected topics that do not relate to any particular theme. Engaging in spam gets in the way of building a decent web eco-system that...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live If the majority of a website’s backlinks are low quality or spammy looking (e.g.sponsored links, links in the footers, links from...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Sadly the work of old is now catching up with many webmasters as spammy, low value links are pounced on by the Web Spam team. Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live
Also a great alternative to Google and prides itself on being a spam-free search engine. A new search algorithm designed to detect, and boot out, spam. S - Sitewides, Social Signals, SERPs, Spam Spam Spam links are considered to be links that are...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live So essentially, what Google Penguin did was try to correct its rankings by discounting patterns it considers to be link spam.
Matt Cutts, Google Distinguished Engineer and head of the web spam team, tackled the subject in a Google Webmaster Help video blog yesterday, in response to a question submitted by SEO AJ Kohn. Human raters are “no substitute for the intuition and...
