Tag: Spam

What Have Google’s Biggest Mistakes Been?
Do you feel like Google makes many mistakes when it comes to trying to improve its search results? Do you think they've gone overboard or not far enough with regards to some aspect...
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Facebook Is Killing 3 Types Of Content In The News Feed
Facebook announced even more changes to its News Feed algorithm today, aimed at "cleaning up News Feed spam". Facebook will be targeting three specific types of posts, and stop sh...
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Samoa Pink Eye Outbreak Extends School Closings
An outbreak of conjunctivitis, more commonly known as pink eye, has...
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Gmail Is Adding An Unsubscribe Link To The Top Of Marketing Emails
Google is reportedly adding a new "prominent" unsubscribe link to the top of marketing emails, potentially driving a lot more unsubscribes for businesses. It was announced on Thurs...
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Matt Cutts Talks About A Typical Day In Spam-Fighting
The latest "Webmaster Help" video from Google is an interesting (and long) one. Google webspam king Matt Cutts talks about a day in the life of someone on the webspam team. Her...
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Gmail Bug Led to Inadvertently-Deleted Emails, Spam Reports
Some Gmail for iOS users just received an important notice from Google urging them to check their trash and spam folders for wrongly-categorized emails. According to the Gmail t...
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Jelly Users Reporting Bugs, Spam
Jelly, the new social, mobile picture-taking search app from Twitter co-fo...
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Twitter Removes Block From Phil Robertson Petition
Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson supporters were surprised to s...
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Twitter Makes Odd Privacy Change, Catches Flak, Promptly Backtracks
In the span of just one day, Twitter made a pretty significant change to a major element of privacy on the site, took a bunch of heat from users, and quickly reverted all changes....
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YouTube To Video Creators: You Better Not Pay For Views
Google is reminding YouTube video creators that they better not pay for views (unless you count paying Google for ads), or they will face potentially harsh consequences. The Yo...
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Matt Cutts Talks Blog Comments And Link Spam
If you run a blog, you no doubt come across spammy comments with links in them frequently. You may know that this can hurt your page in Google, but sometimes people leave comments...
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Viagra At The Top Of Matt Cutts’ Wish List
In July, Yahoo began letting users set up wish list...
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If Google Has Accused Your Site Of ‘User-Generated Spam,’ You’ll Want To Watch This Video
Google pumped out a batch of new videos about webspam via its Webmaster Help YouTube channel. You can find others from the series...
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Google’s Cutts Explains The ‘Pure Spam’ Manual Action Label
Google has put out a series of videos discussing various forms of webspam. You can see others from the series here. I...
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Google Warns Sites About Browser History Spam
Google took to its Webmaster Central blog on Friday to warn webmasters that...
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