Google Webmaster Help has uploaded an interesting video, targeting on the use of spammy domains.

Fighting Spam section of How Search Works , a new website launched by Google, shares some real examples of ‘pure spam’ pages that have been removed from search results. It may give you an insight on how their spam algorithm works. (For more information on How Search Works, refer to our March 2 publish.)

Many webmasters needed to know if the links acquired from ‘spammy’ guest blogging or article spinning will raise a red flag for Google. The head of Google’s Webspam Team, Matt Cutts answers this in a video:

Ever since the Penguin update rolled out targeting webspam and unnatural links, webmasters are really worried about spammy links pointing to their site. There is all this talk of negative SEO as well and even though Google has released a Disavow Links Tool, there is some worry about analyzing & removing spammy links that webmasters [...]

The battle lines between search engines and SEOs seem sharper after the Google Patent document called Ranking documents surfaced around two weeks ago. The patent reveals the ways Google can identify the ‘techniques’ used by ‘rank modifying spammers’ to bring their site up, and then it can adjust the ranking in such a way that [...]