Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team, announced on Twitter that Google took action against several thousand link networks: In addition to mattcutts.com/blog/what-to-e… it's safe to assume webspam will continue to tackle link networks that violate our guidelines as well.— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) 15. Mai 2013 In fact, we took action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link-that-passes-PageRank network earlier today.— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) 15. Mai 2013 It's hard Read the full article...

Spammers beware! This summer, Google is going after black-hat and link spammers. In a video on YouTube, Google's Matt Cutts announced 9 things that Google will do within the next months. How do these changes affect the position of your web pages in Google's search results and what can you do to protect your rankings? 1. There will be more Penguin updates Google is going to launch the next generation of the Penguin algorithm within the next few weeks. The Penguin 2.0 update will go Read the full article...

Some days ago, Mozilla.org received a notification message from Google: "Google has detected user-generated spam on your site. Typically, this kind of spam is found on forum pages, guestbook pages, or in user profiles. As a result, Google has applied a manual spam action to your site." Mozilla.org develops the popular Firefox web browser, the email client Thunderbird and other open source products. They get thousands of natural backlinks and they do not have to involve in shady search engine Read the full article...

A new study shows that Google's tolerance of spammy backlinks is decreasing: "The Portent analysis found strong evidence that Google is steadily lowering the bar for what it considers spam link profiles. [...] We found that the majority of websites — 36 out of 50 — have “clean” profiles with less than 10 percent of their links coming from questionable sources. [...] We discovered Google has been applying a stricter standard over time. In the initial Penguin update, the only sites Read the full article...

Last month, Google's Matt Cutts announced that he was "taking a look at a naughty Russian link selling software": Discussions on black-hat forums indicate that the Russian link network SAPE links has been penalized by Google. Webmaster who used this network indicate that their website rankings have been downgraded. This wouldn't be the first time that Google penalized a link network. The risk of using link networks Black hat websites are full of services and tools that sell link packages. Read the full article...

On a new web page, Google shows live examples of web pages that have been removed from Google's index. According to Google, "these pages are examples of 'pure spam.' They appear to use aggressive spam techniques such as automatically generated gibberish, cloaking and scraping content from other websites." Obvious and not so obvious web spam Some of the pages that Google shows on the website are obvious low quality pages: Other pages look like regular websites. These websites usually use hidden Read the full article...

Many people who are new to SEO think that using Google's disavow link tool will help them to get the high rankings back that they had before Google's penalty hit their sites. That is not the case. If you want to get your rankings back, there are other things that you have to do. Why were so many websites penalized? Google's Penguin update penalized websites by people who confused spamming with search engine optimization. Buying hundreds of links on other websites is not search engine optimization. Using Read the full article...

Five days ago, Google's Matt Cutts announced in an online discussion that there will be further Penguin updates that will be upsetting for many webmasters: "Lots of people were asking me when the next Penguin update would happen, as if they expected Penguin updates to happen on a monthly basis and as if Penguin would only involve data refreshes. If you remember, in the early days of Panda, it took several months for us to iterate on the algorithm, and the Panda impact tended to be Read the full article...

Last Friday, Google's Matt Cutts announced an update to Google's Penguin update on Twitter: "Minor weather report: We pushed 1st Penguin algo data refresh an hour ago.Affects Read the full article...

It seems that there is a new Google algorithm update every week. Google's Matt Cutts has announced that Google are going to release another algorithm update during the next few days: "In the next few days, we’re launching an important algorithm change targeted at webspam. The change will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google’s existing quality guidelines. We’ve always targeted webspam in our rankings, and this algorithm represents another improvement in our efforts Read the full article...

During the last few weeks, Google sent many webmaster notification messages about unnatural links. If you have received such a message, here's what you have to do to make sure that your website doesn't get penalized. What is this Google unnatural links message? Google has sent the following message to many webmasters: "Dear site owner or webmaster of example.com. We’ve detected that some of your site’s Read the full article...

It seems that Google is becoming more aggressive when it comes to unnatural links. In an online discussion, Google's John Mueller gave the following advice: "Regarding the age of the unnatural links, I'd work to have them all removed, regardless of the age. For instance, in the general case where a site has been buying links for 2 years, it would be a good idea to go back that far. [...] If you're serious about your site's standing in our search results, then I'd strongly advise not to try to wait Read the full article...