Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google guidelines'

Back in the old days, referrer spam was a way to get quick rankings by spamming other site's referrer logs. Wikipedia explains it pretty well: Referrer spam is a kind of spamdexing (spamming aimed at search engines). The technique involves...

Posted on September 23, 2009 9:28 AM

I often see threads at the Google Webmasters Help discussion forum of people who have sites that were penalized for having issues with their site in the Google Webmaster guidelines. But it is not often where you see a thread...

Posted on May 21, 2009 8:51 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Google has made a slight but yet important change to their link schemes page within their Webmaster Guidelines section. BEFORE: Examples of link schemes can include: Link exchange and reciprocal links schemes ("Link to me and...

Posted on August 16, 2007 7:13 AM