Posts Tagged ‘Search-Engine-Spam’

Modified Scraping on the Rise

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Personal Experiences, Prevention

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 [...]



Update: Stylefeeder Responds and Gets Banned

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News

In an update to my previous article regarding 302 redirects as a method to spam search engines, I received a reply back from Stylefeeder. Though I am late getting this up due to future posting, I wanted to share what they had to say.
When asked why Stylefeeder uses 302 redirects instead of direct links, a [...]