Posts Tagged ‘seo’

A Dirty Spam Trick

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Earlier today, I ran across a post on Digg that referenced a blog readability test.
The idea behind the test is simple. You type in the URL of your blog or site and it tells you the approximate reading level required to understand it. It got me curious about the readibility of this site so I [...]



Attributor Launches Content Monitoring Service

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 6th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Web startup Attributor, previously covered here, has announced the launch of their content monitoring and analysis platform and is openly accepting customers for their service.
According to Attributor, the system “works by allowing publishers to register and digitally fingerprint each piece of content” and then checking for uses of that content that violate previously determined rules [...]



Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 25th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Prevention, Products

For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings.
This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about the plagiarists, [...]



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 [...]



302 Hijacking: An Old Danger Made New Again

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 14th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

Ralph Rocks is a fragrance by the Ralph Lauren company. Now Smell This is a popular blog about perfumes that wrote the top-ranked page for a search on the fragrance.
However, looking at the Google results, you’d never know that. The top search result belongs not to Now Smell This, but a fashion site [...]