Posts Tagged ‘search spam’

Spotting Spam Blogs

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences

Spammers are making it harder and harder to separate their creations from those of amateur bloggers. However, by understanding various ways to spot spam blogs and how spammers try to beat those methods, you can better detect junk sites yourself.



Workfriendly Goes Offline

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News

Safe-surfing site and “accidental scraper” Workfriendly is now offline after more than two years of pushing duplicate content into Google.



The Popularity of Plagiarism

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences

Inspired by recent posts, I decided to take a look at Google Trends and see how search terms relative to content theft were doing.



Finding the Age of a Page

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

If you need a quick and easy way to get an idea of when a post went life, there is a Firefox plugin that uses google to put that information just a click away.



The Rise of Made-For-Amazon Spam

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Products

As spam techniques evolve, it is inevitable that they begin to turn to newer and more reliable services to publish and profit from their junk content. In just such a push, many spammers are turning to Amazon as a means to make a quick, reliable dollar.



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.



The Best Way to Report Spam to Google

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Articles, Videos

Many complain that it is very difficult to get Google to take action on reported spam blogs. However, a simple trick may make it easier to get the search engine’s attention when reporting junk content.