Web hosts, especially smaller startups, often struggle when dealing with abuse matters. Here are five of the more common mistakes.

Twitter spams for a new set of “Spinning” have been popping up all over the Web. They claim to help keep your content safe, but is it all just spin.

With every new medium comes an attempt to game it, usually using other people’s work. Twitter is no exception but it does provide a series of new challenges and questions.

Recent improvements at WhoIsHostingThis promise to make it the go-to resource for finding the host of a site. But are the improvements good enough?

BackType, a new comment search engine, has raised the ire of many bloggers for its practice of scraping and republishing full comments. But what is the service about and how can it resolve these issues?

For the most part, bloggers who host their own sites have greater control and protection than those who use a third party. However, a little-known feature at Google’s Blogger service may help level the playing field some.

Feedblitz has come under fire for its new “private label domain” service. However, even as the relatively benign service attracts a great deal of attention, a fatal flaw in the Feedblitz site turns Feedblitz into one of the most effective spam bloggers to date.

Google has introduced it’s effort to take on Wikipedia, but much of the conversation around it has been about how it will hurt webmasters and could cause chaos in the search engine results.

WordPress.com users have access to a useful, if unofficial, blog dedicated to helping them report and stop scrapers of their content.

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.