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Someone Outranking You With Your Own Content? Use The New Google Scraper Report
One of the most frustrating experiences for any publisher is discovering that someone not only has copied your content but outranks you on...
Google’s Matt Cutts: When Commenting On Blog Posts, Try To Use Your Real Name
In a recent video published by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts talks about are blog comments with links spam? In short, most of...
Matt Cutts At Pubcon 2013: Moonshots, Machine Learning & The Future Of Google Search
This morning, the head of Google’s webspam team Matt Cutts gave a keynote speech at Pubcon in Las Vegas. The keynote comes on the heels of...
The Structured Data Brouhaha At SMX East: Clarifying Contentious Issues
If you attended the Structured Data Superstars session at SMX East earlier this month, you probably witnessed a very brief interchange between...
Google May Have Penalized Another Major Link Network: Ghost Rank 2.0
Google has significantly penalized another underground link network over the weekend and we believe that one of the link networks targeted by...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Spammers Rarely Spam Using Multiple ccTLDs
In a recent video answer by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, Google said that spammers rarely use multiple or mass number of...
Google Says “Snag” Has Taken Manual Spam Actions Viewer Offline
If you’re not seeing the “Manual Actions” feature in Google Webmaster Tools, you’re not alone. Many webmasters have...
Google Releases Seven Videos On Typical Manual Spam Actions
Earlier today, Google launched manual spam actions to Google Webmaster Tools where you can see if your site currently has a manual spam action....
Google Launches Manual Spam Actions Viewer, Streamlines Reconsideration Process
Google is adding a new feature in Webmaster Tools that will leave no doubt when a site’s search rankings are affected by a manual webspam...
Google’s Matt Cutts: We Fight Search Spam In 40+ Countries & Internationalize Our Spam Algorithms
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced in a video that Google fights search spam at an international level but does tend to...
Google To Take Action Against Fake Search Results Injected Into Browser History
Google made a clear stance late Friday on the Google Webmaster blog that they will not tolerate webmasters pushing deceptive search results to...
Google Payday Loan Algorithm: Google Search Algorithm Update To Target Spammy Queries
Google has officially launched a new search update to target “spammy queries” such as [payday loan], pornographic and other heavily...
Penguin 2.0 Losers: Porn Sites, Game Sites, & Big Brands Like Dish.com & The Salvation Army
Google’s fourth Penguin update — what the company is calling Penguin 2.0 — hit last night, and less than 24 hours later...
Google 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 US wireless communications...
Google Zaps Another Link Network, ‘Several Thousand’ Link Sellers Hit
What a week it’s been where Google and SEO are concerned. The company, via Matt Cutts, has issued several warnings about things to come...
Google’s Matt Cutts On Spamming Cuil, Helping Masses, Debunking Evil Google & More
Google’s head of search spam, has decided to publish a bunch of blog posts that were sitting in draft mode on his personal blog. He said...
Google: That Mozilla Penalty Only Impacted One Page Out Of 22 Million
We reported yesterday that Google penalized Mozilla over user generated content. Today, we learn that it was a really, really small penalty that...
Google 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...
Yandex Takes Exception To Search Malware Study
Yandex has taken exception to a recent study that reported it has more malware in its search results than other major search engines like Google...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Be The Sucker That Buys The Spammy Domain
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to the question “Can I buy a domain that used to have spam on it and...