{"id":642931,"date":"2013-02-19T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=217603"},"modified":"2013-02-19T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:01:20","slug":"google-talks-about-phone-number-spam-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642931","title":{"rendered":"Google Talks About Phone Number Spam Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/googles-matt-cutts-talks-phone-number-spam-2012-04\">Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts took to Google+<\/a> to discuss phone number spam. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to clarify a quick point: when people search for a phone number and land on a page like the one below, it\u2019s not really useful and a bad user experience. Also, we do consider it to be keyword stuffing to put so many phone numbers on a page,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a few websites that provide value-add for some phone numbers, e.g. sites that let people discuss a specific phone number that keeps calling them over and over. But if a site stuffs a large number of numbers on its pages without substantial value-add, that can violate our guidelines, not to mention annoy users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the image he was referring to: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/pictures\/phone-stuffing.jpg\" alt=\"Phone Number Spam\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today, Google released its latest Webmaster Help video, which features Cutts talking about the subject once again. It&#8217;s short and sweet, and basically serves as a reminder that Google will take action on this kind of thing: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V0z7XOOmoM4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=2UvUkzySuNA:EZrGoGv8hoE:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/2UvUkzySuNA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year ago, Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts took to Google+ to discuss phone number spam. \u201cI wanted to clarify a quick point: when people search for a phone number and land on a page like the one below, it\u2019s not really useful and a bad user experience. Also, we do consider it to be keyword [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}