Typically, the more reprehensible firms who claim to perform SEO services have some pretty below-the-belt tactics and even more unscrupulous methods of convincing poor site owners to pay for their services. However, today, I found a ...
I notice 3 unique DMOZ threads that are sending quite a few visitors to SEOmoz today. I want to welcome and thank all of the editors there who've made their way over. We may have our differences, but I realize that most of you are doing a great job organizing and classifying sites and maintaining what is still the best directory available. Hopefully, you're not too upset over my ...
I set out to find a search comprised entirely of spam and was rewarded on only my second try. See a search for casino seo at Google and note that only a WMW thread, an SEOConsultants page and the Linksmile homepage are showing up (at the bottom) as non-spam results. The remainder are ranking prima...
Donna Fontenot has posted another fantastic scoop fresh from the WebMasterWorld conference. The post covers how a Google engineer explained to the crowd how Google might monitor and penalize sites that appeared to use surreptitious techniques to boost their rankings - primarily via link spam (although in this specific example, t...
When thinking about how Google's manual penalties operate, it's easy to have questions about both process & personal disgression. The most common explanation and the one I personally believe, is that Google uses an algorithm that measures link populari...
To borrow from the Beastie Boys, Google's "crystal ball ain't so crystal clear". It appears that a successful sabotaging of a website is easier than one might hope. lots0 at Threadwatch points out that using the non-canonic...
Larrysart at SEOChat has a fascinating tale of ups and downs in Google's SERPs over the last several weeks for 2 of his sites. His suspicion is that the DigitalPoint Co-op created or excacerbated a sandbox...
Yahoo! and I have always had an excellent relationship, which is why I was so perturbed to find that they banned a site I've been working with for several years - www.avatarfinancial.com. Last week, a ...
Several good threads and links have popped up with relationships to search spam. Although I'm still out of town and have very few minutes in the day to post, I thought I'd mention these: On the subject of the Search Engine Spam Workshop A blackhat vs. whitehat debate at SEOChat - ...
Two fantastic threads on the subject of the much-maligned Google sandbox are offering some excellent insight and advice. Both of these threads are at SEOChat: From larrysart and later ...
The measurable risk of any particular SEO tactic is very hard to measure. After all, experimentation with successful sites in the SERPs is not only dangerous, but also expensive and time-consuming, while avoiding risks by using precautionary measures is virtually costless.Si...
The methodology behind spam filtering for email is getting more and more advanced as filtering programs are literally trained by their users into recognizing and categorizing an email as spam. For the web, spam detection and elimination is a work in progress too...
Although I had considered reporting on this yesterday, it now appears that the migration of new results across most of Google's datacenters is near completion. The 'sandbox' - the unexplained factor affecting thousands of newer websites appears to have ended ...
An exceptional thread at SEW - SEO World Obsessed with Sandbox - reveals some of the techniques that top SEOs use to avoid the sandbox issue at Google. The most common and well-received of these was the use of sub...