 Couldn't Agree More With This Article!, What's 'acceptable' spam techniques? |
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 Jan 21 2005, 04:34 PM
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 High Rankings Advisor  Group: Admin Posts: 29,201 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:01 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2  |
This is a really good article, and I couldn't agree more:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363737 QUOTE(snippet) While there are certainly some shady practices that you can use to "cheat" your way into a better page rank from search engines, some practices that are marked as "spam" can actually be quite innocent. Dave Taylor provides two examples of perfectly innocent web design elements that have been called "spam" by pagerank purists.
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Jan 21 2005, 05:12 PM
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 HR 6  Group: Active Members Posts: 634 Joined: 19-July 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:01 PM From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 4,420 |
I am with you on this, once again, I feel, it goes toward intent. (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/clapping.gif)
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Jan 21 2005, 06:17 PM
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 Lea de Groot Group: Active Members Posts: 488 Joined: 3-July 04 User's local time: Feb 10 2010, 04:01 AM From: Brisbane, Australia Member No.: 4,229 |
... and outcome.
ie if you 'accidentally' get yourself banned while not intending to be spammy - well, if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck... (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
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Jan 21 2005, 06:40 PM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,201 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:01 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Lea, that's why the engines err on the side of assuming stuff isn't spam.
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Jan 21 2005, 07:33 PM
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 HR 6 Group: Active Members Posts: 887 Joined: 1-December 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 12:01 PM From: Near St. Louis, Missouri Member No.: 1,507 |
Yep, imagine what it would feel like to innocently use one of the purportedly "spammy" techniques - for completely legitimate business purposes - then get banned? What a welcome to the 'net!
Now, in the case of companies who know how to and do manipulate those techniques for ill-gotten gains in rankings (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/fork_off.gif) ...different story. Loved the message that came through in the SE Spam panel at SES Chicago (paraphrasing)... It isn't the technique that defines spam, it's the implementation of the technique. Guess the SE dilemma is how to recognize it. (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
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