Comments on: Abuse: Keyword Spamming versus Tag Spamming http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sat, 25 May 2013 19:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Categories versus Tags – What’s the Difference and Which One? « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-931899 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:54:01 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-931899 [...] For the web world, 2005 was declared to be the year of the tag. Bloggers and webmasters were trying to understand what it meant for categorizing their content, but most of all, just like they did with links and SEO, they wanted to figure out how to manipulate tags for better page ranking. [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-931741 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:34:58 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-931741 A single report of a spam site does not cause a reaction. A DMCA notice can, especially if you are the infringed upon.

]]> By: Peter http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-931713 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:55:27 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-931713 My curious is does google care with our spam report? I’ve found spam site and report it to google. But it seem, the site still alive? :roll:

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]]> By: Are You Abusing and Misusing Tags? « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-282588 Thu, 17 May 2007 12:16:42 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-282588 [...] Abuse: Keyword Spamming versus Tag Spamming, I wrote of the abuse and misuse of hidden keywords from the early days of the web and how this [...]

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]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Keywords « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-33223 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:02:45 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-33223 [...] From Abuse: Keyword Spamming versus Tag Spamming by Lorelle [...]

]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Tags, Tagging, and Categories « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-32310 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:10:21 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-32310 [...] Abuse: Keyword Spamming versus Tag Spamming [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-23243 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:12:08 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-23243 rel="nofollow" tells a search engine to ignore the link. You can learn more at WordPress Codex – Nofollow.

As stated in the article, yes, there is a potential for abuse with tags. As I have also said repeatedly, your blog will be more successful if it keeps to a specific topic instead of spread out all over the place. If SEO is really critical to you, then focus, focus, focus.

The question that really needs to be answered is also two-fold:

1) Are you really worried about your tags becoming abusive? Or other people’s use of tags?

2) Are you really worried about all the people you attract to your blog getting upset because an inappropriately used word (or tag) brought them there? If so, then consider reading Hook, Line and Sinker: Luring Blog Traffic to Stay.

]]> By: ovidiu http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-23189 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:38:05 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/abuse-keyword-spamming-versus-tag-spamming/#comment-23189 hi lorelle,

thx for pointing out this excellent article when I asked you about an opinion about tag spamming.

still there are 2 points I would like to point out:

a) there is legitimate use of tags which leads to tag spamming: you could have a sidebar containing the top 25 tags of your blog, which is a very legitimate use, but still spams every single of your posts wand pages with this pletora of tags, which are not relevant to all your posts.

b) what about this popular shoutboxes a lot of people have in their sidebar? After analizing my logs I found that people came to my site via google searching for strange keywords, only after noticing that some ppl. chatting on my site had mentioned those keywords I understood why my site came up for some very strange keywords.

In my opinion it would be great to have some way of telling search engines to ignore content between 2 tags, i.e. I would put my top25 tags and my shoutbox into [ignore] [/ignore] and all would be ok.

any ideas / opinions ?

regards
Ovidiu

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