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Could it be another bug for Google?

DAGMAR Marketing

Recent SEO news over the past few months has been related to low-quality results and spam. Since my curiosity got the better of me, I clicked on a city PAA, “Who were the early settlers of Winchester Virginia”: The answer provided to me was from Wikipedia (no surprise there). Google is aware of this and working on solutions.

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Why Content is the #1 Ranking Factor and How to Maximize It

Marketing Insider Group

Even the highest authority sites like Wikipedia and YouTube only make it into the high 90s. That’s why Google has so many spam systems in place to prevent websites from exploiting backlink loopholes. Instead, you want to shoot for an authority number better than your industry competition. You can’t be an expert in everything.

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Is Your SEO Strategy to Barely Avoid Spamming?

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. To learn more, read my latest column in Search Engine Guide, " Is Your SEO Strategy to Barely Avoid Spamming? ". When you drive your car, do you set out to go as fast as possible without getting a speeding ticket? If you take the same attitude to the search engines' terms of service, you're making a big mistake.

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Artificial intelligence is getting even smarter

Martech

Instead, one should pull from news sites or Wikipedia. Another potential for abuse is false content — spam or phishing — noted Carr. And finally, Carr revealed his biggest worry: if the internet is ruined by false content and spam, “search results become a wasteland of bots.”. Like Twitter, Buteneers noted.

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How Google's Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Links Impact SEO

Moz

Google introduced the nofollow attribute in 2005 as a way for publishers to address comment spam and shady links from user-generated content (UGC). Linking to spam or low-quality sites could hurt you, and nofollow offered publishers a way to protect themselves. Should curated links from trusted Wikipedia contributors really not count?

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3 Reasons Why SEO's Are Upset About Google's Rel=nofollow Announcement

Hubspot

Let's say I'm a Wikipedia editor, and I've recently written a page about zebras. Following the success of my Wikipedia page, I get an email in my inbox. So what if a fake news site is listed on a Wikipedia page for zebras? To understand what rel=nofollow is, we'll start with an example. Pan told me -- "Consider it this way.

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Optimizing for Bing & DuckDuckGo

Method and Metric

Be aware that the same spammy tricks that will get you in trouble with Google still apply here – practices like link buying, link spamming, and link manipulation. Looking up SEO on Wikipedia would be “!w Domain age is more important to Bing than Google – the older the site that’s linking to yours, the better. Focus Local.