Dear Senator (and Texas Gubernatorial Candidate) Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Here’s A Free Crash Course On SEO
Jul 31, 2009 at 1:15pm ET by Vanessa Fox
The "Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Governor Official Website" put up by "Texans for Kay Bailey Hutchison, Allan Shivers, Jr., Treasurer" over the weekend in support of Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Texas governor was briefly in Google but now appears to be completely missing. Huh.
Odd since Bing seems to have indexed it just fine, although the snippet looks a little odd.
Let's take a closer look at the site.
Looks OK. Maybe it's all in images or JavaScript or something and Google is having a hard time extracting content? I'll just take a closer look with web developer toolbar. I'll [...]
Filed in: Features: General, How To: SEO, SEO: Spamming
Clean Tweets: New Add-On Zaps Twitter Spam
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:58pm ET by Matt McGee
If you use Twitter regularly, you probably know spam is a growing problem -- particularly with Twitter's search engine and the way it surfaces trending topics. Danny Sullivan described how spammers are targeting hot keywords in his Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem article 10 days ago.
Since Twitter hasn't addressed the problem yet, the folks behind the BLVD Status web analytics tool have created Clean Tweets, a Firefox add-on that, in my brief testing, does a good job eliminating spam from Twitter search/hot topics. According to the Clean Tweets page, the tool does three thing to cut down [...]
Filed in: SEO: Spamming, Twitter
Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
Jun 9, 2009 at 3:05pm ET by Matt McGee
Somewhere online right now there's a music fan who's big on free downloads, likes Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" but doesn't know the lyrics, is looking for free ringtones, uses MySpace, likes to play solitaire and wants the latest game cheats. Like many of us, s/he uses a search engine to find all of these things.
This person may as well be playing Russian roulette.
In a recent report (PDF), online security company McAfee says those are some of the most dangerous search terms on the web.
That's just a sample of the report's list of the 50 riskiest search terms in the U.S. "Maximum R [...]
Filed in: Ask: Web Search, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, SEO: Spamming, Stats: General, Top News, Yahoo: Search
Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem
Jun 6, 2009 at 4:46pm ET by Danny Sullivan
And so real-time search begets real-time spam. We knew this would happen, but it's annoying and becoming a growing problem. Question is, will Twitter do anything about it, beginning with removing its "Trends" feature?I got an up close & personal look at how bad Twitter "trend spam" has become when this week, our SMX Advanced search marketing conference became a trending topic.
Trends are topics that are gaining attention on Twitter, usually identified by the use of a common word. For example, at SMX Advanced, attendees were told to add the hashtag of "#smx" to the end of their twe [...]
Filed in: Features: General, SEO: Spamming, Top News, Twitter
Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
Jun 3, 2009 at 12:39am ET by Danny Sullivan
Imagine that you fired up your computer and found that a bunch of your programs no longer worked, because behind the scenes, the operating system had been upgraded without any backwards compatibility. That's what happened this week with Google. Some things that were working just fine now are broken, because Google isn't being backwards compatible. And that's fairly unprecedented.
Don't panic. One of the changes really shouldn't hurt many sites, impacting only a "power SEO" technique commonly called PageRank sculpting that I'd say fairly few use. The other has a bigger impact and pote [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Link Building: General, Link Building: Paid Links, SEO: Duplicate Content, SEO: Spamming, Top News
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