Category: Search & Web SEO Spam

Matt Diggity interviewed the two of the six people who ran Conch-House.com, site that completely dominated the Google search results for a couple of months. In short, they posted 6,000 posts per day by scrapping review content from Amazon. The site gre…

John Mueller shared on Mastodon that he met with someone who relies on screen readers to consume the web. And he explained to him how old-school SEO tricks make reading the web using screen readers, well let’s just say, not pleasant.

Here is a newish link scheme, well, not 100% new but parts of it is new. As reported by The Next Web, these link spammers are using AI to create fake lawyer profiles that are going around sending fake DMCA requests demanding a link to their site for th…

Google’s John Mueller sometimes has to confirm the more obvious questions including that Google does not use DA, a Moz metric. And now that Google does not use the spam score metric from DA. Believe it or not, Google uses its own scores, signals and r…

Roger Montti posted on Twitter that he is seeing more and more spammers using a technique to spam Google through videos. In short, the spammers would find the top ranking content, use text-to-speech software to create automated videos of the content, w…

I absolutely love when the industry is transparent and Dan Petrovic from Dejan SEO said his site was slapped by an unnatural links manual action by Google and the result was that his site no longer ranks for its name or key terms. A lot of folks in th…

I get it, you automate a lot of your job – that is the efficient way to spam but try to put into your automation a blacklist. Blacklist emailing anyone at a @google.com domain, black list emailing anyone with the name John Mueller, Gary Illyes or anyo…

Matt Cutts, the former Google spam fighting lead, now the Administrator of the United States Digital Service, said on Twitter that he still has a “few honeypot traps” to catch SEOs and then will report them for fun.

It feels like every six-months or so a new story comes out how SEOs are manipulating the Google search results, or at least trying to manipulate the Google search results, by taking advantage of link drops in popular online magazine web sites like Forb…

Martin MacDonald notified me on Twitter of Google Flights spamming Google with links in their footers and potentially even hiding links to users but not GoogleBot…

There is a pretty large new thread at Black Hat World where “black hats” are discussing if their methods are dying out now. Black hat SEO is the SEO practice of going against Google’s webmaster guidelines in order to manipulate the Google search resul…

For the life of me, I don’t get how lazy some of these spammers or link sellers are. Why would you email someone at an @google email address or someone who is a known search quality representative that you are selling links…

We’ve seen it before, negative SEO threats. Bill Hartzer recently got one and asked Google what to do.
The advice given is similar to what Google said in the past

Google posted a blog post on Friday named protect your site from user generated spam. It wasn’t a warning, such as…

Google posted on their webmaster channel on Google+ that one of the primary reasons a web site is hacked these days is because of SEO. Google wrote…

I cover one of these every several months, where a webmaster is knowingly breaking the Google Webmaster guidelines and then seeks help from a Googler…

Remember when Google targeted a bunch of private blog networks and then Matt Cutts mocked them…

The nofollow link attribute was originally designed to reduce comment and forum spam by removing the value of links with the nofollow attribute. Originally the major blog platforms adopted them immediately to reduce comment spam…

As I covered this morning at Search Engine Land – Will Google & Bing Penalize Microsoft Over Their Sponsored Post Campaign For Internet Explorer?
I suspect they will have to.
What happened?
Microsoft seems to have contracted SocialChorus to run a campaign to generate buzz and awareness over their new Internet Explorer. As you know, IE has been getting a pretty bad rap these days.

Raspberry Pi is loved by computer geeks all around the world, every programming office should have at least one lying around, if not, it is a bad sign. That being said, Raspberry Pi on Twitter slammed an SEO for crying about link spam…