<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nLaura Thieme from Columbus, OH says \u201cA client has a leading competitor who has created 100 or so blog sites with little depth \u2013 Google gives them top ranking on every related term to their industry. Why does this tactic win? I thought this was crap hat tactics?\u201d<\/p>\nThis \u2018crap hat\u2019 at a phrase Danny Sullivan used in a recent conference, he\u2019s just annoyed when people do spamming junky stuff that doesn\u2019t really help anybody on the web. So Laura, do a spam report and give us some specifics because, I\u2019d love to check it out. I think our scoring does pretty well on finding out links that we shouldn\u2019t be crediting but we love to get new data on things that we should be doing better or link exchanges that don\u2019t appear to be diffusing if they are really really excessive. So send a standard report so that we can check it out because that\u2019s the sort of stuff we love to get and we\u2019ll see where it goes from there. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Thieme from Columbus, OH says \u201cA client has a leading competitor who has created 100 or so blog sites with little depth \u2013 Google gives them top ranking on every related term to their industry. Why does this tactic win? I thought this was crap hat tactics?\u201d This \u2018crap hat\u2019 at a phrase Danny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Laura Thieme from Columbus, OH says \u201cA client has a leading competitor who has created 100 or so blog sites with little depth \u2013 Google gives them top ranking on every related term to their industry. Why does this tactic win? I thought this was crap hat tactics?\u201d<\/p>\n
This \u2018crap hat\u2019 at a phrase Danny Sullivan used in a recent conference, he\u2019s just annoyed when people do spamming junky stuff that doesn\u2019t really help anybody on the web. So Laura, do a spam report and give us some specifics because, I\u2019d love to check it out. I think our scoring does pretty well on finding out links that we shouldn\u2019t be crediting but we love to get new data on things that we should be doing better or link exchanges that don\u2019t appear to be diffusing if they are really really excessive. So send a standard report so that we can check it out because that\u2019s the sort of stuff we love to get and we\u2019ll see where it goes from there. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laura Thieme from Columbus, OH says \u201cA client has a leading competitor who has created 100 or so blog sites with little depth \u2013 Google gives them top ranking on every related term to their industry. Why does this tactic win? I thought this was crap hat tactics?\u201d This \u2018crap hat\u2019 at a phrase Danny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}