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. Every day, our team of editors scours the web and places quality content into the most relevant category at BOTW.
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make...
For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. Think of it like McAfee's site advisor, but focused on fighting spam and scams versus viruses and malware. I thought to myself, was he using comment spam...
And while there have been many examples of this being badly executed, with lots of site owners and SEO professionals complaining of injustice, it is clear that web spam engineers have collected a lot of information over recent months and have...
Primarily it’s up to the search engines, the social networks, and the site owners to prevent it as much as they can, but flagging spam where you can will at least give them a hand in identifying this web junk.
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.
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.
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. Google is so committed to this that Google's Search Quality team has been renamed to Google's...
Whilst Google's 12th birthday and 13th birthday was characterized by a sense of volatility reflected in radical changes to leadership and hard line approaches to spam, Google's 14th birthday couldn't be more different.
When SEO becomes an issue is when spam comes into play, such as if you go overboard buying links, doing comment spam links, or keyword stuffing. After recounting Sergey Brin's claim Google is spam proof from a past SES, Cutts discussed Google’s new...
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.
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.
Engaging in spam gets in the way of building a decent web eco-system that can survive the shifting sands of algorithm changes. If a human user cannot explain what a page is about, or why it is linking to another page with those specific words then...
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. New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam Google Penguin Web Spam Algorithm Update Feedback Form Now Live
Granted, Google’s definition of spam has varied, but generally they have done a good job of being vocal in the community through Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team, and also through Google’s own Webmaster guidelines.
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. Is it spam?
There are never any magical guarantees for gaining or regaining top search rankings and Google is notoriously tight-lipped about the exact signals it uses to detect web spam. The main purpose of the Penguin update is to put a deep freeze on web...
If you want to report spam that Google is missing, fill out a spam report and add the word penguin,” Cutts, Google’s Distinguished Engineer who leads the web spam team, tweeted yesterday. Google has named its latest web spam algorithmic update...
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, yesterday announced that Google had pushed out the new algorithm. SEO by the Sea has a good rundown of Google’s patents related to combating web spam.
