You don't really hear much these days about e-mail spam. It seems many people have gotten used to simply deleting their e-mails.Some folks use services like Spamcop while others use the default spam blocker in Microsoft Outlook. There are a plethora of techniques used to block spam and the e-mail spammers have to constantly update their ...
One theme that I've been concerned with this week centers around data transparency in the search engine world. Search engines provide information that is critical to the business of optimizing and growing a business on the web, yet barriers to this data currently force many companies to use methods of data extraction that violate the search engines' terms of service....
Recent developments in the SE world have led to massive changes in MFA (Made For Adsense) sites. Basically they've been banned by Google Adwords with their new quality system that's in place.While there are a few ways to get around these changes, it's caused quite a few people to see significant drops in their earnings.Google has also been rather effective lately at d...
Just a quick note to those who might think that big names are immune to sandboxing at Google: Techmeme isn't ranking in the first 250 results for its name, despite having one of the tech industry's most robust reputations and a ...
... yes, yes - all over this land. I'd spam about cialis, and I'd have a nasty doorway re-direct page (www.surfbirds.com/blog/hummingbird/) from a blog host (that's slightly delayed so GG won't catch me). I'd spam about ...
Ok. Here comes a rant. I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO USE FORM INJECTION / SPAM!!!Feels a lot better... What kicked me ranting was that I'm sick and tired of seeing an ever growing flow "Feedback Spam" on my websites. I know, there a...
When cloaking is mentioned, most people start to shiver and shudder. They point to all the nifty doorway pages, Google's TOS and say how horrible and evil it is.But is cloaking really that evil?Take, for instance, a high trafficed site that gets a million hits a day. Serving no ads to the bots as well as other streamlined code could result in significant savings...
Apparently someone new (or several new someones) was busy testing some funky new blog comment spam software last week. According to Akismet (a software product used to examine and help reduce comment spam), on Tuesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29, blog comment spam reached its highest level ever. I don't know what their average day ...
So now that you've got a basic understanding of click fraud, let's continue with the discussion...Why cheat the system?Look, I can give you all sorts of nifty rationalizations (and some did) but the bottom line is it's about the money stupid ...
I'm not here to debate whether click fraud is a problem or isn't although personally I think it is.I've recently had the opportunity to speak with several people in the underground who, quite understandably, do not want to be mentioned. Some of what they told me, as well, I won't mention. However, I can let some information come out.I'll mention some of my favor...
Every day for each of my servers I get a report that looks something like this:Number of pages crawled by the Search Engines on https://www.urlremoved.com 03/22/06 are listed below.Slurp: 41604Googlebot: 2577MSN: 20974Teoma: 200557...
I know we don't usually cover news that everyone else has, but I couldn't help spreading the word on this band of snakes. From David Wallace: The company in question is Paramount Web Masters (www.paramountwebmasters.com). I'm am not going to link directly to ...
Michael Gray had advice for newbie black hats in the SEO field. My two favorites from his post are: ...
Aaron is asking the question (and giving a reasonably good answer), "Can a Site be Penalized for Links?" over at SEOBook. My personal opinion, however, is that... wait for it... "it depends." There are some sites that can be Google-bowled out of the index via spammy backlinks, but most of the time, the f...
