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Tag: Search spam

User Redirection Based On Location Is Not Spam Says Matt Cutts

Yesterday a video was posted by Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam, stating that geo-location or redirected users based on their location isn’t spam.  Google feels that a site that utilizes geo-location techniques isn’t doing anything spammy. Although, to be clear, what Google does consider spam is when your site redirects GoogleBot to […]

Matt Cutts: I Recommend NoFollowing Links On Widgets

This morning, the head of Google’s search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video where he strongly recommends that anybody please placing widgets on their sites, or those who distribute widgets, should place a nofollow on the links within the widget code. Matt Cutts said, “I would recommend putting a nofollow, especially on widgets.” The reason […]

Google Fights Search Spam In Over 40 Countries and Internationalizes Spam Algorithms

Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam, mad an announcement via a video that Google fights search spam at not only the national level, but an international one.  Although this is the case, Google’s spam fighting is stronger in the Google.com, with English search results. Matt Cutts explained that with a majority of Google’s […]