#webspam — Public Fediverse posts

Search Engine Journal: Google Begins Rolling Out The August 2026 Spam Update. “Google has begun rolling out the August 2026 spam update, according to the Search Status Dashboard. The rollout applies globally and to all languages, and Google says it may take a few days to complete…. As of publication, Google hadn’t posted a blog article to go with the dashboard note. Its spam updates page […]

TorrentFreak: European Space Agency Website Exploited to Advertise Shady IPTV Services. “The European Space Agency’s Cosmos portal is dedicated to space exploration. While the organization scans stars and galaxies far away, its own infrastructure is quietly hosting hundreds of PDFs promoting shady IPTV services, ranking them in Google right beside official Gaia mission updates. The SEO ‘hack’ […]

Search Engine Journal: Google Finishes Rolling Out The June 2026 Spam Update. “Google has finished rolling out the June 2026 spam update globally and across all languages. It’s the second spam update of the year.”

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2025/12/growing-problem-of-ai-comment-spam

#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post

The internet is turning into a landfill of AI-generated "slop"—and if we’re not careful, we’ll all be forced to abandon our screens and touch grass (the horror! 🌱😱).
But jokes aside, this is a real issue. AI spam is making the web harder to navigate, and it’s only getting worse.

https://youtu.be/vrTrOCQZoQE #AI #WebSpam #SaveTheWeb

Search Engine Roundtable: Google August 2025 Spam Update Unleashed. “Google has released the August 2025 spam update on August 26, 2025 at around 12:00 pm ET. This update applies globally and to all languages and will take a few weeks to complete.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/search-engine-roundtable-google-august-2025-spam-update-unleashed/

DEFINITION: A "toxic backlink" is a link that has been confirmed (by a search engine) to have actually harmed your Website's ability to be indexed and/or ranked. It has NOTHING to do with any SEO tool's opinion about the quality of a link.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #webspam #searchengines #bing #google

Nuovo #Webspam Report by Google, ecco solo qualche numero che mostra il successo di #spambrain:
+ 5 volte rispetto 2021
+ 200 volte rispetto al primo aggiornamento

E sottolineo un passaggio importante:

SpamBrain è stato un fattore importante per rilevare meglio lo spam durante la scansione. Ciò significa che quando vediamo una pagina - per la prima volta - ora possiamo identificare meglio lo spam 𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶 𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘇𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗼

Tradotto e riassunto su LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marsella_how-we-fought-spam-on-google-search-in-2022-activity-7051808614012837888-jkdg

Can you guess how many more #spam sites #SpamBrain caught in 2022 compared to the previous year? The #Google #Search 2022 #webspam report is here! Read about SpamBrain, links, hacked spam, user safety and more https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/04/webspam-report-2022

Newly published on SEO Theory (this morning): "Google's Disavow Condundrum".

Here is a lengthy excerpt from today's article:

"What you’re about to read is excerpted from an older, longer premium article. The excerpts provided below omit details and context provided by even older articles from which they were taken. Be careful not to infer meaning beyond what you see here.

"I received the following question (reformatted for this article): 'Michael, you’re convinced no one knows how to disavow properly. What would you disavow?'

"Long-time subscribers to the newsletter may recall that I’ve shared my criteria for identifying spammy links in the past. Obviously to answer this question I’ll have to go down the list again. But first let me summarize what can happen with link spam:

"1. The search engine never sees it, so no effect
2. The search engine indexes it w/o sufficient PageRank-like value, so no effect
3. The search engine indexes and accepts the spam, so the links pass value
4. The search engine rejects the links and never indexes them, so no effect
5. The search engine indexes the spam but doesn’t trust it, so the links DO NOT pass value
6. The search engine identifies a pattern and penalizes the destination
7. The search engine identifies the spam as such and assigns a NEGATIVE value

"Item 3 is important. Spam sometimes helps. It still works in 2019 (Update: Yes, in 2023, too). Spam may always work.

"To the best of my knowledge, Google has never explicitly stated that links can pass negative value but they’ve come close several times. I first openly speculated about 'Negative PageRank' in 2011 after the Panda algorithm was released. [When I asked Matt Cutts about this, he pointedly said nothing – leaving us to speculate.]"

#seo #webspam #digitalmarketing #backlinks

https://www.seo-theory.com/googles-disavow-conundrum/

Why can’t #GoogleSearch manage to get rid of all the fake coupon websites? The type that “has” coupons for every shop and service imaginable. (In reality, they just want you to click their affiliate link for said service for a cut of the action.) Bing seems to be better at filtering out —at least some — of these sites. Yandex is even worse than Google. #WebSpam #AdFraud

So, another Monday trying to wrap my head around the fact that #webspam seems to work even better for #SEO this year than it did last year. Link growth to deep pages, seems to be just about the only signal that matters these day. You might think that Googles spamcatching AI should know it's job by now, but it seems to be at a loss when understanding even the worst cases of obvious spam.

#Webspam using #Wikipedia content to rank ahead of #Wikipedia in #Google #Verbatim

https://twitter.com/jamessfoster/status/1570710776540958723

RT @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Been seeing some strange behaviour in Verbatim mode. Spammy domains using Wikipedia content making it to the 1st page of results & outranking Wikipedia.

For example, "percent" in Verbatim yields mxehazide(dot)com. Leads to a 404 page, too.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jamessfoster/status/1570710776540958723