Spam is a growing problem on the Web and it is no longer as centralized as it once was. Spam is spreading and services once thought to be “safe” are now being inundated with junk content. However, fighting this broader push by the spammers is not going to be easy for Webmasters or hosts.

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Sometimes it is far too easy for a legitimate site to be mistaken for a spam blog. However, that need not be a problem if you follow these simple steps.

Two new WordPress plugins were released in the past few weeks. Both promise to help defend against scraping but how much security do they actually provide?

For all intents and purposes, RSS is still an extremely new technology. Bloggers, often viewed as being on the cutting edge of such things, are still struggling to determine how to best use the tool to distribute their works.
But as hot as the debate is among bloggers, it is even more heated in the [...]

Content theft and RSS scraping is not going away. As more and more spammers get into the game and the tools they use improve in effectiveness, the problem is only going to get worse. Because of this, RSS feeds are going to remain vulnerable and bloggers will continue to seek out ways to protect them.
However, [...]

Anyone who is a regular reader to this site knows that, in order to get Adsense removed from a scraper or plagiarist’s page, you are required to file a DMCA notice.
Adsense has its own DMCA policy and follows it very strictly. Though results can be obtained through that means, few bloggers actually use it.
Not only [...]

On the surface, workFRIENDLY is something of a novelty site.
The idea is pretty simple, you punch in a URL that you want to visit and workFRIENDLY pulls up the site in a format that resembles a Microsoft Word document (see Blog Herald on workFRIENDLY). The idea is that, if you use the site to [...]

It appears that Google’s push to handle duplicate content may be having an unintended side effect.
Even though a recent report by Attributor indicates that the search engine has done a terrible job separating originals from copies, the spammers don’t seem to be taking any chances.
Spam bloggers are no longer content on scraping entries [...]