webspam

Google's changes--which include a new document-level classifier, as well as better ways of detecting hacked websites and soliciting feedback from users--take aim at "webspam" as well as content farms--"sites with shallow or low-quality content," in Google's words.

Google Tries To Snuff Out Spam, Content Farms With New Changes The Huffington Post 2011

Google's changes--which include a new document-level classifier, as well as better ways of detecting hacked websites and soliciting feedback from users--take aim at "webspam" as well as content farms--"sites with shallow or low-quality content," in Google's words.

Google Tries To Snuff Out Spam, Content Farms With New Changes The Huffington Post 2011

He works on the Google "webspam" team, and frequently blogs about Google and their views on various SEO techniques.

Site Reference - Webmaster Articles S. Housley 2008

Cutts wrote that while Google has done a good job in scrubbing what he called "pure webspam" -- completely irrelevant links -- out of its results, more subtle junk has been sneaking in.

Google promises searchers less spam, fewer content-farm results Rob Pegoraro 2011

As “pure webspam” has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to “content farms,” which are sites with shallow or low-quality content.

Daily Dispatch: WayBack Machine adds improvements; Google tweaks algorithm to handle spam and content farms 2011

The head of Google's webspam ruminates on productivity, iPhones and writing a novel in a month.

Internet picks of the week Johnny Dee 2010

Robert you have paid links almost every day on your blog, going to Podtech and sponsors – you should nofollow them all, and I should really report you for webspam.

Google Steps Up Efforts to Identify Paid Links 2007

I did report Matt Cutts for webspam, he keeps linking through to Google, and as an employee and most like shareholder, he gains a monetary benefit linking through to Google and promoting Google products on his “unofficial” blog with convenient legal clauses.

Google Steps Up Efforts to Identify Paid Links 2007

It appears that at least some of the JavaScript - redirecting pages have already been removed from bmw. de, which is very encouraging, but given the number of pages that were doing JavaScript redirects, I expect that Google's webspam team will need a reinclusion request with details on who created the doorway pages.

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If you've never seen webspam, here's a good example of what you might see if you click on a link in the search results that's spam click on the image to see it larger.

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