Walking The (Thin) Line Between SEO And Web Spam – MediaPost Communications
Walking The (Thin) Line Between SEO And Web SpamMediaPost CommunicationsAn article that appeared on SEOBook.com last week has me a little rattled. Rank Modifying Spammers is an interesting exploration...
View ArticleInstagram Faces Rising Tide of Spam
Instagram is exploding. The mobile photo-sharing app is set to hit its 100 millionth user before its second birthday, an early growth rate that puts Facebook and Twitter to shame. As the user base...
View ArticleAny SEO could damage your site as a spam site – ZDNet
Any SEO could damage your site as a spam siteZDNetI've always advised people not to worry about search engine optimization (SEO) with the explanation that it's the job of the search engine to optimize...
View ArticleDoes Spam Go With That Bargain? Digital Satirists Harass Groupon
British digital satirists fed up with Groupon’s daily email deluge tried to physically deliver spam to the company’s London office on British television last night. A video clip of the event on...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts On “Will Search Spam Go On Forever”
Google’s head of search spam, answered some questions in the Power Searching with Google Hangout on Air #2 on October 2nd. In that video, he was asked by fellow Googler, Dan Russell a Search research...
View ArticleBloggers: Making Spammers by Avoiding Spam?
It’s easy to discount guest posting as a legitimate practice because of the scammers trying to manipulate the SERPs. This doesn’t mean all guest posting is bad though. Posts must be judged case by...
View ArticleSEOs Sharing SEO Email Spam – Search Engine Roundtable
Search Engine Roundtable SEOs Sharing SEO Email SpamSearch Engine RoundtableSEO Email Spam You and I all get them, probably a couple times or more per day, spam from "SEO companies" offering us "top...
View ArticleWATCH: Google Now Shows Live Examples Of Spam Removed From Its Search Results
In Google’s new How Search Works, Google is showing real live examples of spam that was recently removed from their search index. Most of these examples are of pure spam, as Search Engine Land founding...
View ArticleGoogle Charts “Manual Actions” Against Spam In Search For First Time
How often does Google take “manual action” against websites for spam, where a human being reviews a site and decides it deserves some type of penalty? For the first time, Google’s released a chart...
View ArticleGoogle’s Live Spam Screenshots Highlight ‘Useless’ Web Pages
Google has launched a new website called How Search Works. One feature SEOs may want to check out is the Fighting Spam section, which shares a stream of real examples of “pure spam” pages that Google...
View ArticleWeb Spam Archive Tool Saves Google’s Live Spam For More Than Just Recent Results
One of the more interesting aspects of Google’s recently released “How Search Works” interactive infographic were the live examples of spam that were recently removed. The features allows users to see...
View ArticleFTC Cracks Down On Text Message Spam
The U.S Federal Trade Commission announced today that it is cracking down on text messaging spam. The FTC’s ire is targeted at affiliate marketers that use SMS to send spam messages intended to get...
View ArticleHow To Find Out and Fix Spam Scripts On WordPress Theme?
After Matt Cutts confirmation of upcoming major Google algorithm update in 2013, there is a great panic among the webmasters. There are lots of discussions going on about the hitting parameters of this...
View ArticleWeekly Rundown: Google & Spam, Search Malware, GM Back to Facebook & More
Google’s Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko. GM likes Facebook ads again. Here’s a quick recap of search and...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Spam
Link building isn’t as easy as it once was. Google Penguin changed the game. Now, rather than building links “the easy way,” SEOs must focus on building natural, relevant, and useful links – not the...
View ArticleGoogle Hits Mozilla With Spam Penalty Over User Generated Content
Have user generated content on your site? Pay attention to what those users are doing. That’s the takeaway from Google hitting Mozilla with a spam penalty this week, along with another takeaway....
View ArticleGoogle Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums
The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty,...
View ArticleStill Seeing Post-Penguin Web Spam In Google Results? Let Google Know.
Google’s next generation Penguin update is now live and webmasters and SEOs are carefully assessing how this update has impacted their web sites. Google is assessing things as well, how this has...
View ArticleGoogle Penguin 2.0 Spam Report Form Now Available
It’s been less than 24 hours since Google Penguin 2.0 went live, but there are already several reports of big changes. There are also many reports that, despite Penguin, Google is still ranking spam...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: Web Spam Benefits From Using Rel=”Author”
A new video by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, talks about how potentially using rel=”author” structured data can help Google’s Web spam team improve search quality. Matt Cutts explains that...
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