Archive for the ‘Prevention’ Category

Putting Your Feed on Probation

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Darren Rowse of Problogger fame suggested a that new bloggers should start their sites out with a partial feed and switch to a full one once they have enough “trust” from Google. But could the system work?



Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.



Identify Yourself, Protect Your Images

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Orphan Works, Prevention

With the new orphan works bill set to be introduced, visual artists are looking for ways to identify themselves as the copyright holder and prevent their work from being “orphaned”. Here is one easy way to help with that.



A Warning for Email List Admins

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.



Fragmented Conversations and Blogging

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention

The notion of fragmented conversations has drawn a lot of attention over the past few weeks. However, what are the real implications solutions to the problem?



New Trend: Scraping Via Email

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Spammers are nothing if not clever and a new technique to scrape posts could cause headaches for bloggers as it thwarts many of the traditional means of shutting down the scrapers.



Workfriendly: Yet Another Issue

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Prevention

Workfriendly, a script that masks the Web to look like an open Microsoft Word document, may have been created as a joke, but it continues to create serious problems for the Webmasters that it scrapes.



Branding Your Site and Your Content

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Your site’s brand is not just an important tool in promotion, but a valuable weapon in reducing and mitigating against scraping and content theft.



Offering Embedding to Prevent Plagiarism

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention

Embedding multimedia content is now a way of life on the Web. But while webmasters and bloggers love the ease of use, content creators are benefiting from less plagiarism and greater control.



Spam Blogs and AdSense Dollars

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

Adsense keywords can fluctuate wildly in price. So what happens when a keyword related to your site becomes the subject of a bidding war? One Austin attorney found out.