Spam Questions

For my target keyword I am ranking as #1. Lately I've started seeing strange backlinks (lots of them) in Google Webmaster Tools.I suspect one of my competitors is doing it to potentially screw up...

Competition Google SEO Spam Backlinks

asked Jun 19 '14 at 01:42

Kevin Kinder
11 points

Lately I have had someone constantly post thousands of spam blog comments which have links that point to my site. It is a huge amount of work trying to keep up with disavowing these links in Google...

SEO Spam Competitors Backlinks

asked Sep 9 '14 at 15:14

Patrick Gonzalez
14 points

I tried adding reCaptcha to my signup page in order to prevent automated signups (we're having a problem where someone is creating hundreds of accounts a day to spam).Adding the captcha resulted in...

Technology Technical Spam Conversion

asked Apr 19 '14 at 01:27

Mark Guy
7 points

With all the information being dispensed by Matt Cutts and the Google web spam team, is link building soon going to be dead. In terms of not being a prominent factor in rankings?Especially since...

Google SEO Spam Link Building

asked Apr 3 '14 at 10:41

Christopher Arnold
11 points

I've had an online site for years, currently with around 3000 users. I want to start a newsletter but am unsure of the laws for this (I've read CAN-SPAM guidelines but this subject isn't really...

Advertising Newsletter Spam

asked Dec 7 '12 at 07:52

Geoff M
115 points

Are there in the UK any particular regulations regarding sending business offers/requests by e-mail? I was unable to find any, but for example in my home country, Poland a company can send an...

UK Spam Email Marketing

asked Mar 13 '12 at 04:21

Lukeshek
452 points

When sending commercial emails to people you do not know, is there any difference between targeting b2b or b2c. For example, assume I send an email to a contact info of another company (for...

Marketing B2B Email Spam Email Marketing

asked Dec 30 '11 at 21:44

Vondip
584 points

I am currently part of a small team of people (<6) who are working on building a mobile application for release on a few of the popular mobile stores. We were deciding on ways of advertising and...

Advertising Spam Email Marketing

asked Dec 8 '11 at 00:37

A Sandwhich
121 points

My company recently launched a product and I've been attempting to build up the page rank of the product site by building up inbound links to it. To kill 2 birds with one stone, I've been searching...

Marketing SEO Spam

asked Jun 11 '11 at 05:42

Erebus
121 points

There is this scenario. I registered dropbox.com (hereafter DB) and were using it. And DB offered me a referral program that I'll get 250mb for every free register from my referrer. So I gave DB...

Legal Email Spam

asked Apr 14 '11 at 22:52

Moe Sweet
141 points

I have a website with an integrated Web service (an app for card divination online). Age of domain is already almost 2 years. Naturally, I wanted to make my site popular. First I submit my app in...

Google Apps Spam

asked Apr 6 '11 at 04:35

Astraport
186 points

For my online business, I need to send emails to my customers. Sometimes they get rejected by their spam filter. I try to encourage my customers to add my email address to their address book. Do...

Spam

asked Jan 1 '11 at 22:11

Anthony
203 points

I've added an "invite your friends" feature to my site but reading through can-spam, it seems as if invites should be classified as unsolicited emails. But invites must be can-spam compliant...

Marketing Email Spam

asked Nov 14 '10 at 21:47

Sherif Buzz
462 points

Spam in email, Linkedin Groups, forums, etc is so prevalent. I see it as part of life on the internet but find it annoying and intrusive. Both legitimate and scam businesses spam. Is it because...

Web Spam

asked Jan 20 '10 at 20:29

Starr Ed
948 points