Spam

The Game of Cat and Mouse – Has Google Become Better at Fighting Webspam?

I would like to share the story of the most resilient spam project I’ve ever seen. It started in November 2011 and it goes through to June 2018, where it looks like the owner has finally given up. It’s called Gutscheinmagazin.de (Voucher Magazin), a German domain – you don’t need […]

Google to Allow Cloaking for Publishers

From the start, Google’s rules have been easy to understand and quite clear: the Google crawler needs to see the exact same content that a regular user would. If that does not happen, then you have a case of cloaking – a technique that Google considers to be in violation […]