Targeting Spam > April 26, 2010
No Follow Links | Search Engine Optimization Blog
[Search Engine Optimization Blog] Google has began using the no follow links as a machine readable revelation for paid links and therefore keeping them from gaining any credibility in the search engines results. The web owners are still debating over whether or hurting them as many pages are paying for links to be traded on their site in hopes of raising their page rank.
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April 26, 2010
Dofollow and Nofollow Links | Blogging and SEO Tips
[Blogging and SEO Tips] Dofollow and nofollow attributes are originally created by Google to reduce the amount of spam in the community of bloggers. Before its implementation, many people like to leave your links in the comment body in its comments on blog entries.
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April 02, 2010
Video: Google Talks Quality, Caffeine, Spam, Buzz and PuSH
[WebProNews Videos] On the subject of Caffeine, Cutts says it is a very slow process because the search engine wants to make sure it has “high quality results.” Caffeine is live at one data center and will be rolled out at other data centers in the coming weeks and months.
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January 29, 2010
Google Says, Referrer Spam Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings
[Search Engine Roundtable] The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referrer url that points to the site the spammer wishes to advertise. Sites that publicize their access logs, including referrer statistics, will then end up linking to the spammer's site, which will in turn be indexed by the search engines as they crawl the access logs.
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December 28, 2009
NoFollow Links Really are NoFollow - Net Builders
[Net Builders] I've read a lot of people theorizing about how Google counts some NoFollow links. I've never bought into that theory, but I've also not had any strong arguments against it.
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December 21, 2009
rc3.org - Spammers gaming Google
[rc3.org] For years I’ve avoided Google for certain types of searches, but it’s true things seem to be getting worse. We’re planning a move to a new town in a few months and searching for the most basic information on grocery stores, internet access, etc, only results in a morass of useless pages that have no real content at all, and certainly nothing remotely local.
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December 18, 2009
Google Doodles exploited by spammers to spread malware
[D' Technology Weblog] Spammers are exploiting Google Doodle; “the Tuesday doodle showed a Esperanto flag, a universal language created by LL Zamenhof which's based on parts from a variety of languages.
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November 13, 2009
Is google read nofollow rank - Webmaster Forum
[Webmaster Forum] Based on I read that "Googlebot does not follow no-follow links" but Therefore, even links with the No Follow attribute do have value;
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Posted at 04:32 PM
September 18, 2009
What's changed with nofollow?
[About Web Design / HTML] Many sites used internal nofollow to pool page rank to important pages. Google have now publicly stated that this doesn’t work, as less page rank is spread around the remaining followed links.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
July 31, 2009
» Google Counts A Nofollow Link!
[Arindam Chakraborty.com] The comments on that blog were all nofollow. Never for once had I imagined, not even in my wildest dreams, that one day Google would count that link!
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July 10, 2009
Google abolish the use of “NoFollow” | Search Engine Optimization
[Search Engine Optimization] In Last Month [June] Matt Cutts announced that the google algorithms has been changed and that use of “NoFollow” Links will be having Negative Impact for your website. It Was Introduced in 2005 and accepted by Google and other major search engine.
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May 04, 2009
Is Google Becoming A Junkyard For Spam? ~ bradleybradwell
[Lockergnome Blog Network] Currently, it’s believed, that Google determines relevance through the number of links pointing to a website rather than judging by traffic and other statistics. This has lead to reciprocal linking and link exchanges, essentially fooling the search engine into believing that their website is “important,”
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April 17, 2009
Spammers Can Get Your Email Address from Google Profiles
[Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog] When you add your Gmail user name to the Google Profile, you are indirectly exposing your email address to spammers. They can simply take the username from any Google Profile, append @gmail.com and they have gold in their hands because its you real Gmail address.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
April 10, 2009
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Spam data and trends: Q1 2009
[Google Enterprise Blog] Spammers continue to prove their resilience -- whether it's bouncing back from the biggest takedown on record or finding new ways to exploit the ways we communicate for malicious purposes, they're clearly here to stay. And Google believes firmly in the power of the cloud to protect your enterprise from them: Outsourcing message security to Google enables you to leverage our technical expertise and massive infrastructure to keep spammers from your door.
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February 16, 2009
“When Google started out they didn’t spam other search engines ...
[Google Adsense Referral News] Your link will appear below each time you send traffic to http://googlereferral.com. Just copy the following link to your website: Google Adsense Referral News ...
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Posted at 04:03 PM
Heads up. No referral spam to adsense sites
[My '56 Chevy] Just got an email form google saying no referral spam. Don't know how they figured it out but I just said I hired a guy to do promotions and didn't know what he was doing and they said ok don't do it again.
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January 26, 2009
Q&A: What is the Nofollow Link Attribute?
[Daily Blog Tips] However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it’s important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways.
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January 12, 2009
Ways to Use the Nofollow - Shimon Sandler - SEO Consultant
[Shimon Sandler - SEO Consultant] Google has forever affected SEO with their creation of the rel= “nofollow” attribute on hyperlinks. Google was afraid that their ranking algorithm was being manipulated from advertising and comment spam.
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December 12, 2008
21 Top Wordpress Plugins at WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins ...
[WPThemesPlugin.com] The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin lets you insert the Google Analytics code automatically throughout your blog. It discounts your own visits, automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links, and downloads.
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October 24, 2008
NoFollow and PageRank Sculpting is it Worth the Effort?
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September 26, 2008
SEO, Google and Using the rel=nofollow attribute on Links
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September 19, 2008
SEO : Simple review about the "nofollow" tag
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