Nefarious search engine optimizers be warned. Google is coming for you—again.

Following previous changes to Google’s ranking and page layout algorithms, the search giant is pushing yet another update to its algorithm this week with the hopes of curbing “black hat webspam” from creeping into search results.

The change will go live for all languages at the same time within the next few days, said engineer Matt Cutts in a blog post yesterday, and will affect roughly 3.1 percent of queries in English “to a degree that a regular user might notice.”

Cutts said the changes are targeted at sites engaged in tactics such as keyword stuffing, or “unusual linking patterns” where unrelated links are sprinkled throughout a fake or manufactured article. These sites might be harder to recognize than more blatant SEO offenses, but Google engineers believe that targeted sites “are engaging in webspam tactics to manipulate search engine rankings.”

As previously reported, there have been at least nine major updates to Google’s “Panda” algorithms since they were introduced last February, with numerous other tweaks along the way. In some cases, otherwise innocent sites were harmed, though this change is promised to affect a much smaller subset of visible search results.

Google’s quality guidelines outline just some of the discouraged tactics, which include hidden text or links, pages with irrelevant keywords, cloaking, and, of course, the presence of malicious software. That’s not to say all SEO is bad, however. Cutts points out that so-called white hat techniques are still fair game, and can often improve the usability of a site, “which is good for both users and search engines.”

As for packing every known pharmaceutical synonym into your site’s footer? That’s probably not as wise.

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/googles-new-search-algorithm-to-crack-down-on-black-hat-webspam/

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Google not responsible for ‘internet graffiti’ rules judge

Google is “purely passive wall” with no responsibility for internet “graffiti” no matter how offensive or libelous, a High Court judge said yesterday.

Eric Schmidt to sell $1.5bn of Google shares  Photo: AFP

Google, Bing, and other search engines use bots to crawl our sites, but if SEO’s use a bot to create content or to exchange links it’s considered a form of SPAM.

Some users report that Google has brought down websites by making multiple concurrent connections and overwhelming shared hosts ability to respond to requests.

Solution?  Block the bots.

For years, webmasters have wanted to send their website to as many people as possible and increase their rank in the search engines.  What if a new trend is developing, a private internet, where reverse IP bans are common, where webmasters block search engines from crawling their sites.

Legitimately, Google and others do offer an option: use robots.txt to tell them how to crawl (or not crawl) your site.

Some resources on robots.txt

http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

http://www.robotstxt.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard

http://humanstxt.org/

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SEO Concepts, as developed by Vector Informatics, are unique SEO techniques that can promote your URL.  Some are made public such as the Address 2 SEO Technique.

An SEO concept is a way to uniquely create natural search rankings for your domain, and traffic, without the use of traditional techniques such as back linking, article writing, and search engine submission.

For examples of SEO concepts contact vector informatics at contact.startvector.com

http://www.osignite.com/blog/item/73-making-the-htaccess-sef-urls-work-with-godaddy-hosting.html

http://support.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/topic/joomla-500-internal-error/

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/1655

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2724955

If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you.

Specifically, they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 12.

That’s the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users’ bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/

More reading:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/?tag=mncol;topStories

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20073522-261/exclusive-top-isps-poised-to-adopt-graduated-response-to-piracy/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/major-isps-agree-to-six-strikes-copyright-enforcement-plan.ars

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Vector Informatics is taking a different direction with our SEO and Internet Technology developments.

What we have noticed:

• SPAM (now colloquial for any mass-ad traffic that is unwanted, including blog comment spam, forum spam, etc.) is at an all time high, and even causing servers to upgrade their hardware!
• Users behavior has changed, for a new group of emails overwhelmed by SPAM it causes people to change their emails more often, causing bad addresses.
• Websites and internet networks too focused on form and not content.  Content in general is decreasing in quality.
• Haphazard events such as hardware malfunctions causing alot of reorganization.
• Political concerns such as the SOPA act causing internet players to behave according to new rules.

Vector Informatics will be launching a series of internet projects and products in the coming months, stay tuned to pleaseblogin.com for more details.