Sentences with word «webspam»

In 2012, Google officially launched the «webspam algorithm update,» an algorithm specifically targeting link spam and manipulative link building practices.

Last year, Matt Cutts — head of Google's webspam team — announced that guest blogging was «done,» inciting, seemingly overnight, a stampede away from it.

Rand noted in another post, «To me, the most exciting part about this is the potential to reduce webspam and return to a more purely editorial model.

Google news — On Tuesday, Google announced another imminent change to their algorithms to attempt to counter webspam.

Google's head of webspam, Matt Cutts, has given us the goods on Google's view of SEO through more than 500 Q&A videos since 2009.

While we can't divulge specific signals because we don't want to give people a way to game our search results and worsen the experience for users, our advice for webmasters is to focus on creating high quality sites that create a good user experience and employ white hat SEO methods instead of engaging in aggressive webspam tactics.

In the next few days, we're launching an important algorithm change targeted at webspam.

The site lets you «follow the entire life of a search query, from the web, to crawling and indexing, to algorithmic ranking and serving, to fighting webspam».

This update focuses on webspam and eliminating black hat SEO tricks, but it's likely that other changes to the previous Panda algorithm this year will also be referred to in pop culture as Penguin as well.

In spite of every other ranking factor, Google's webspam team will still occasionally take manual action against certain sites which can take half a year to a year to recover from after you've cleaned up the problems.

The webspam algorithm later became known (officially) as the Penguin algorithm update via a tweet from Matt Cutts, who was then head of the Google webspam team.

I think this data is most useful at the two - term level — one term is something Google might use more for semantic intent rather than webspam (my guess), and three and four terms end up looking more like the anchor text profiles themselves.

We've always targeted webspam in our rankings, and this algorithm represents another improvement in our efforts to reduce webspam and promote high quality content.